Somebody asked for little known facts about people’s hometowns and the answers were fantastically niche and very British
13.
‘Workington had the first ever purpose-built covered bus station in the whole of Great Britain.’
–osrslmao
14.
‘The roots of GCHQ as we know it today can be traced back to a tiny group of RAF listening stations that consisted of three wooden sheds at a place called Branston Mere – a village just outside of Lincoln. The place was so unassuming that even the locals didn’t know its importance until recently.’
–KaleLord7
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‘My home town was this place in Wales called Laugharne. A really tiny place at the mouth of the estuary in South Wales. Home to Dylan Thomas. Had nine drinking establishments when I was younger. It was under 2 miles long, so they definitely packed it in.’
–jamiebuch
16.
‘Joe Strummer may seem a London character through and through, but he played his first gig in Newport. He lived in the town (now a city) for a short time and formed his first band here. He lived in a flat near the train station, where there is now a blue plaque in his honour. He was briefly employed as a gravedigger but was fired after falling asleep in a grave.’
–Eoin_McLove
17.
‘Shrewsbury is the home to the worlds first multi-floor iron framed building. Built in 1797 as a flax mill it is nicknamed the grandparent of skyscrapers.’
–Gwenfrewy
18.
‘The modern day Chorleywood bread process that enables mass production of bread was invented in my village.’
–chipshopman
19.
‘From the mid-1800s, Stonehouse in Gloucestershire became known for brickmaking, particularly through the Stonehouse Brick and Tile Company (founded 1891). Its bricks were widely used in local landmarks and buildings around the world—such as the English Clock Tower in Buenos Aires. In Gibraltar, bricks made in Stonehouse were transported aboard the RMS Lusitania.’
–Loveyourwifenow
20.
‘Johnstone in Renfrewshire, former Mill Town, has two town squares as the land owners were worried that one square would allow mass protest.’
–Soggy_Tomatillo4165
21.
‘I’m from Stanley, County Durham, a small former mining town that has recent dubious fame as the home of ‘the worst bus station in Europe’ back in the 90s, and then later when a mob of about 200 teenagers attacked police in the bus station that replaced the old one.
‘But Stanley was also the birthplace of David and William Horsley, the first people to set up a film studio in Hollywood.’
–DjangoVanTango
22.
‘Not a town but Alvin Stardust lived above our chippy.’
–gerrineer
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