Advertise your town

yeah, that's pretty much where i stand too.

i think i know what you're referring to anyway.

 

we have this on our town common:

 

My town Dublin...dirty old town

 

There are a zillion ways to resize a pic.

 

^sorry my mistake

 

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http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7535/picturedvq.jpg

 

It's still too big.

 

while still keeping things vague, i'm guessing it's that thing with that comedian you've mentioned in the past.

if that's not what you were referring to, i have no clue.

 

That's better. Now you can edit your previous post with the gigantic pic and put the link in there instead.

I've got a blister on my finger from scrolling back and forth in this thread.

 

lol, Bingo.

 

I live in Sierra Mierda. In Spanish that means 'look at the shit'.

What do we do for fun in my town? We look at the shit.

 

lent its name to when people wear bike lights round their necks at raves...

 

Leicester






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEhjKrkGsAk"]Cities of England - Leicester - YouTube


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV7mfueTI8U"]One Leicester - Together - YouTube
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest. In the 2011 census, the population of the Leicester unitary authority was 330,000, the highest in the region, whilst 480,000 people lived in the wider Leicester Urban Area in 2011, making Leicester the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom and the UK's fourteenth largest urban area.

Leicestershire is a major commercial and manufacturing centre. Its economy is the largest in the East Midlands, accounting for almost a quarter of the region's GDP (£11billion) and providing jobs for 437,000 people.

Ancient Roman pavements and baths remain in Leicester from its early settlement as Ratae Corieltauvorum, a Roman military outpost in a region inhabited by the Celtic Corieltauvi tribe. Following the demise of Roman society the early medieval Ratae Corieltauvorum is shrouded in obscurity, but when the settlement was captured by the Danes it became one of five fortified towns important to the Danelaw.

The name "Leicester" is thought to derive from the words castra of the "Ligore", meaning camp of the dwellers on the (river) Legro. Leicester appears in the Domesday Book as "Ledecestre". Leicester continued to grow throughout the Early Modern period as a market town, although it was the Industrial Revolution that facilitated a process of rapid unplanned urbanisation in the area.

Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, it was the centre of the bishopric from around 670, endowing it with city status. However, it lost city status in the 11th century during a time of struggle between the church and the aristocracy and did not regain it again until 1919. The boundaries of Leicester were extended several times in the 19th and 20th centuries; it became a county borough in 1889, and was re-granted city status in 1919.

The city has a large ethnic minority population, particularly of South Asian origin, a product of immigration to the United Kingdom since the Second World War. To cater for the South Asian community, there are many Hindu, Sikh and Muslim places of worship and the Melton Road district serves as a focus, containing large numbers of Asian restaurants and other small businesses.

Leicester is a centre for higher education, with both the University of Leicester and De Montfort University being based in the city.

List of people from Leicester


Academia

Graham Barnfield (sociologist)
W. G. Hoskins, (landscape historian)
Howard Jones (criminologist) [2]
John Matthews, (Yale professor of history and classics)
Jack Simmons, (historian esp. of British railways)
[edit]Exploration

David Attenborough (broadcaster and naturalist)
Henry Bates (naturalist and explorer)
Sarah Outen (ocean rower and author)
Ed Stafford (explorer and author)

The arts and entertainment

Karl Beattie (Living TV Presenter, Most Haunted & Most Haunted Live)
Biddy Baxter (editor, Blue Peter)
Manish Bhasin (BBC sports presenter, Football Focus)
OJ Borg (radio and TV presenter)
Sara Dhada The Apprentice 2008
Julie Etchingham (TV news reader, Sky News, ITN)
Derrick Evans, (TV fitness instructor, Mr Motivator)
Duncan Fegredo (comic book artist)
John Flower (artist), 1793–1861
Stephen Frears (film director, Dangerous Liaisons)
Martin Gillingham (Sports commentator and journalist)
Ernest Gimson (architect, craftsman)
Clare Hollingworth (foreign correspondent)
David Icke (sports reporter, conspiracy theorist)
Oliver Kamm (journalist)
Mary Linwood (famous needlewoman)
Kim McLagan (model and cosmetologist)
Kevin Myers journalist, (Irish Independent)
Phil Shaw (inventor of extreme ironing)
Jon Tickle (Leicester University graduate, Brainiac: Science Abuse presenter)
Tony Wadsworth (broadcaster, BBC)
Gok Wan (fashion stylist and presenter of How to Look Good Naked, Channel 4)
Arlo White (broadcaster, BBC)
[edit]Acting
Richard Armitage (actor, North and South, Robin Hood)[1]
Richard Attenborough (actor, Jurassic Park and director Gandhi)
Martin Ballard (actor and broadcaster)
Jeremy Bulloch (actor, Star Wars)
Graham Chapman (comedian, Monty Python)[2]
Selina Chilton (actress, Doctors)[3]
Amanda Drew (actress, EastEnders)
Betty Driver (singer and actress, Coronation Street)[4]
Terri Dwyer (actress, Hollyoaks)[5]
Dominic Keating (actor, Star Trek: Enterprise)[6]
Alison King, (actress, Coronation Street)[7]
Michael Kitchen (actor, Foyle's War)[8]
McKenzie Lee (pornography actress)
John Leeson (actor, voice of K-9 in Doctor Who and Bungle in Rainbow and current narrator for the children's hospital radio series; The Space Gypsy Adventures)[9]
Barry Letts (actor, television director, writer and producer)[10]
Bill Maynard (actor, Coronation Street, Heartbeat)
Parminder Nagra (actor, Bend It Like Beckham, ER)[11]
David Neilson (actor, Coronation Street)
Andy Nyman (actor)[12]
Kate O'Mara (actress, Howards' Way)[13]
Helen Pearson (actress, Hollyoaks)[14]
Una Stubbs (actress, Till Death Us Do Part)
Mark Wingett (actor, The Bill)

Music

Aetherfx (Jacob Tugby, Industrial electronic musician)
Laurel Aitken (singer, "The Godfather of Ska". Born Cuba, lived on the St. Mark's Estate from 1971–2005)
A.K.A. Weave (ex band of Happy Mondays band members Kav Sandhu and Mikey Westerman)
Blab Happy (band)
The Bomb Party (band)
Felix Buxton (Half of Basement Jaxx)
Cornershop (band)
Crazyhead (band)
John Deacon (bassist, Queen)
The Deep Freeze Mice (band)
Diesel Park West (band)
The Displacements (band)
Family (band)
Gemini (musician) (DJ)
Gaye Bykers on Acid (band)
Robert Gotobed (drummer, Wire)
Davy Graham (Folk musician)
Ric Grech Violinist/ Bassist/Writer/ Producer. Blind Faith. Traffic. Gram Parsons
H "Two" O (band)
Kevin Hewick (singer)
Trevor Horn (record producer and singer of The Buggles)[15]
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer, Release Me, Misty Blue)
The Hunters Club (band)
John Illsley (bassist, Dire Straits)
Tony Kaye (keyboard player, Yes)
Kasabian (band)
Frank Benbini (drummer, Fun Lovin Criminals)
Lisa Lashes (DJ)
Jon Lord (organist, Deep Purple)
Paul Martinez Bassist/Guitarist/Writer. Led Zeppelin. Stretch. Dave Edmunds.
Tom Meighan (vocalist, Kasabian)
Mark Morrison (singer, Return of the Mack)
Perfume (band)
Sergio Pizzorno (Musician, Kasabian)
Po! (band)
Prolapse (band)
Kav Sandhu (former Happy Mondays guitarist, solo artist,musician, co launched UK festival Getloaded in the Park )
Scum Pups (band)
Showaddywaddy (band)
Lucie Silvas (singer, known to live in the area with her boyfriend Geordan Murphy)
DJ SS (DJ and producer)
Stunt (band)
Yeah Yeah Noh (band)
The Young Knives (band)
[edit]Writing (except journalism)
James Allen (author)
Elizabeth Arnold, children's writer
Julian Barnes (author)
Christopher Bell (military historian & author)
David Campton (Playwright & Actor)
Thomas Cooper (poet)
Anne Fine (author)
Martin Goodman (novelist, biographer and travel writer)
Hal Iggulden, (author)
Joe Orton (playwright)
Lynda Page (author)
John Barclay Pick (journalist, writer, The Last Valley)
Bali Rai (author)
C. P. Snow (author)
Sue Townsend (author, Adrian Mole books)
Colin Wilson (author)

Business

Thomas Cook (travel agent)
Nathaniel Corah (textile manufacturer)
Henry Curry (Founder of Currys)
Thomas Fielding Johnson {worsted spinner, philanthropist, founding benefactor of Leicester University}
Charles Bennion (shoe machinery manufacturer, philanthropist, bought Bradgate Park for the `quiet enjoyment of the people of Leicestershire')
Thomas White (merchant, philanthropist)
William Inman (shipping company owner)
Henry Walker (founder of Walkers Crisps)
William Wyggeston (merchant, philanthropist)
[edit]Politics and Royalty

Alastair Campbell (journalist and political advisor)
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (founder of the English Parliament)
Lady Jane Grey ("Queen for Nine Days")
Greville Janner (MP and barrister)
Richard III of England, King of England

Religion

William Carey (missionary and translator)
Charles Henry Carter Baptist missionary and translator of the first English-Singhalese dictionary
George Fox (founder of the Religious Society of Friends, otherwise known as Quakers)
[edit]Science

William Henry Bragg (physicist, chemist and mathematician)
William Lawrence Bragg (physicist)
Sir Alec Jeffreys (geneticist and developer of genetic fingerprinting) (DNA)
Benjamin Ward Richardson (physician)
Cedric Smith (statistician and geneticist)

Sport

Boxing
Martin Concepcion (Commonwealth light-middleweight boxing title challenger)
Rendall Munroe (EBU and Commonwealth super bantamweight boxing champion)
Chris Pyatt (former World Champion middleweight boxer)
Tony Sibson (former professional boxer)
Cricket
James Barnfather (Played first-class cricket for Essex in 1924)
Samit Patel (England international cricketer)
Football
Ian Baraclough (football manager)
Ashley Chambers (English Footballer)[16]
Dion Dublin (England International Footballer)[17]
Emile Heskey (England international footballer)[18]
Chris Kirkland (England international footballer)[19]
Gary Lineker (England international footballer, World Cup 1986 Golden Boot Winner, sports presenter)[20]
Joe Mattock (English Footballer)[21]
Michael Robinson (footballer, Spanish TV presenter)[22]
Peter Shilton (England's most capped footballer)[23]
Norman Plummer (Leicester City footballer, captain 1949 FA Cup Final, decorated World War II veteran)
Levi Porter (English Footballer)[24]
Luke Varney (footballer)[25]
Rugby Union
Martin Corry (Retired Rugby Player, Former Leicester captain and Former England captain)
Martin Johnson (CBE, Rugby player, Leicester and England's World-Cup winning captain)
Steve Redfern (Rugby player, Leicester Tigers walk of legends)
Dean Richards (Rugby player and coach, Leicester Tigers and England captain)
Ollie Smith (Rugby Union international)[26]
John Wells (Leicester Tigers Rugby Captain, Head coach and England Forwards Coach)
Speedway
Geoff Bouchard
Ivor Brown
Cyril "Squib" Burton
Bruce Forrester
David Howe
Paddy Mills
Graham Plant
Fred Wilkinson
Len Williams (Sheffield, Leicester and England)
Stan Williams (Sheffield, Coventry and England)

Others
Tony Allcock (Fourteen-times bowls world champion, now Chief Executive of Bowls England)
Andrew Betts (Current Great Britain Basketball Player)
Henry Ernest Atkins (chess master, nine times British champion)
Roger Clark (rally driving champion)
Mark Cox (English professional tennis player)[27]
Glenn Flear (chess grandmaster)
Jamie Green (race car driver in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters championship)
Bert Harris (first professional cycling champion of England)
John Arthur Jarvis (swimmer, 1900 Olympic medallist)
John Merricks (sailor, 1996 Olympic medallist)
Mark Selby, (snooker player and eight ball pool world champion 2007)
Willie Thorne (snooker player and commentator)
Fred Wood (multi World Cycling Champion - 1880s)

Miscellaneous

M. E. Clifton James Actor trained to impersonated Bernard Montgomery in World War II
General Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson (former Vice-Chief of Defence Staff, born in Leicester)
Daniel Lambert (1770–1809) (heaviest man in England)
Sydney Lucas (1900–2008) (last soldier to serve in both World Wars)
Joseph Merrick (1862–1890) ("The Elephant Man")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester#Notable_people

TMI?

 

No one has heard of it, the population is only 1,200, we have Taylor's Sausage and The Oregon Caves, the Kalmiopsis Wilderness is right next door and the land around it has some of the most amazing botanical diversity.

 

My town is a decently sized town (~10,000) I think? There are good things and bad things about my town. We have a river that flows right through the heart of my town, and it's one of the cleanest rivers in PA. I loove going swimming there, and floating in rafts. We have a bike trail too, and a looooot of old buildings and shit since our town was founded in the late 1700s. I even think George Washington was in my town at one time. We used to be the coal and coke capital of the whole world, but now it's just a run down town with no stores or anything to do.