Sell Your Home Town

[Scunner]

How amusing to see bickering over which is best, Leeds or Manchester   A bit like which way would you like to be executed, hanging or lethal injection  

So, as an off-shoot, what is your home town famous for? I will leave mine for now, there isn't much [] Anyone actually remember the Barron Knights?  

[Ian]

Can't see the point in this one Keith - as Manchester has no rivals:

London - a cosmopolitan mix where English people are a minority and crime is through the roof
Birmingham - in need of bulldozing and starting again (ps who can understand that whining accent)
Glasgow - only thing good to come out of there was Taggart!
Leeds - well already said enough............

Come to think of it I do like Newcastle.

So there we have it - No 1 Manchester - No 2 Newcastle.

Do you want to lock this topic now - not much point in carrying it on for Stoop to quote something from the Leeds Inward Investment Agency website!!! :

[Scunner]

Who said anything about rivals?

[Jukebox]

quote:Originally posted by Scunner

How amusing to see bickering over which is best, Leeds or Manchester   A bit like which way would you like to be executed, hanging or lethal injection  

So, as an off-shoot, what is your home town famous for? I will leave mine for now, there isn't much [] Anyone actually remember the Barron Knights?  

Did I miss this debate at some point? I just cant see how any individual on here has the knowledge or wherewithall to make a sound judgement.

The fact is that both  Leeds and Manchester are two vibrant, major cities with fantastic night life, shops, theatres , rich  area's and rough ghettos . I love them both. In summary they both encapsulate (like that word eh?) everything that you would find in a major city.

They are both northern cities cut from the same cloth at opposite sides of the pennines. That simple really.

[Scunner]

Does anyone want to point out the merits of their home town, as the title suggests, or just to bore us all to death about whether Leeds or Manchester is better?

[Steve (redding43)]

Footwear, Alan Carr and Adrian Mole

Other than that it's a dump

- Northampton

[Scunner]

and a big lift shaft in the sky, or have they got rid of that  

[Steve (redding43)]

No...the shaft is now a listed national heritage site (or something like that!)

[cef]

quote:Originally posted by Scunner

How amusing to see bickering over which is best, Leeds or Manchester   A bit like which way would you like to be executed, hanging or lethal injection  

So, as an off-shoot, what is your home town famous for? I will leave mine for now, there isn't much [] Anyone actually remember the Barron Knights?  

LOL, I do  

William Dampier, quite a notable explorer, a few hundred years ago.... (Dead)

The Famous 'Glovers, Sloping Pitch' (Gone )

Umm.. Gloves... dare I say (In decline )

Ian Botham.... (Still alive  )

[Scunner]

Ah, the centre of the international glove mafia huh

Ok, now remember Leighton Buzzard is a small town, not like the magnificently impressive likes of Leeds or Manchester

Famous locals: Bob Monkhouse (not as tall as he looks on TV, especially since death), Kris Akabussi, Darren Gough.

From Area: Al Murray, Kajagoogoo (not my fault), The Barron Knights (again nothing to blame me for)

The home of Lipton Tea and Gossard Skimps (till they moved them abroad   )

Most famous sand in the world (I'm struggling now lol) - LB exports sand to Saudi Arabia amongst others. Scenes from The Divinci Code were filmed in OUR sand quarries  

Yeah ok, it's a bit dull (but not as bad as Northampton).

Leighton Buzzard was offered as something that should be dumped in Room 101 by micro 'stars' Mel & Sue (who?) mainly because their act died there. Praise be to Paul Merton, who refused to allow it in.