My town is (in)famous for....

[Mark Grant]

Although I live in Hanworth according to the Post Office I'm in Feltham home of (well at least birthplace of)

I'm not a fan !

 

[Mark Grant]

Also copied from Wiki

• Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) of rock band Queen lived in Feltham 1964-1968; his parents were residents until shortly before he died

• Brian May of rock band Queen once lived in Feltham

• Jimmy Page, legendary guitarist with rock band Led Zeppelin, lived in Feltham.

• Vic Briggs, guitarist of 1960s pop group The Animals, was born in Feltham and grew up in Twickenham

• Dr Thomas Denman (1733–1815), midwifery pioneer, lived in Feltham

• Singer Cheryl Cole lived in Feltham when she was aged 9–11

• Film writer and director Edmund Goulding (1891–1959) was born in Feltham

• Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914–1980), eminent vet, was born in Feltham

• Actor Derek Martin, best known as Charlie Slater in BBC soap EastEnders, lived in Feltham

• Olympic gold medalist Athlete Mo Farah attended Feltham Community College

 

[classic33]

If we're doing Wiki

• Tom Bailey, singer with the Thompson Twins
• William Swinden Barber, architect
• Richard Bedford, singer
• Phyllis Bentley, novelist
• James Bintliff, Union Army General
• Bramwell Booth, former Salvation Army General
• Henry Briggs, mathematician
• John Reginald Halliday Christie, the murderer from 10 Rillington Place
• Lindsay Clarke, Novelist
• Keith Clifford, actor, in Last of the Summer Wine and Coronation Street
• Hannah Cockroft, athlete/double Paralympics gold medallist
• Shirley Crabtree, wrestler professionally known as 'Big Daddy'
• Jon Driver, scientist
• George Dyson, composer
• Arthur Edward Ellis, football referee
• Tony Field, footballer
• Stuart Fielden, rugby league footballer
• David Hartley, philosopher
• Charlie Hodgson England and saracens fly half
• Charles Horner, jeweller and inventor of the Dorcas thimble
• Nick Holmes, singer of the band Paradise Lost
• Barrie Ingham, actor
• Paddy Kenny, footballer
• John Kettley, weatherman
• Nick Lawrence, radio presenter
• Anne Lister, diarist and former owner of Shibden Hall
• Ernest Lister, eighth Governor of the U.S. state of Washington[33]
• John Mackintosh, created Mackintosh's Toffee, which becameRowntree Mackintosh
• Harold Vincent Mackintosh 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax &chocolate manufacturer
• Jim Mallinder Northampton Saints coach
• Brian Moore, rugby union footballer, TV presenter, pundit and journalist
• Thomas Nettleton, local physician who carried out some of the earliest systematic programs of smallpox vaccination
• John Noakes, TV presenter
• John Pawson, architect
• Carolyn Pickles, actress
• James Pickles, judge
• Wilfred Pickles, actor, comedian & broadcaster
• Kathryn Pogson, actress
• Eric Portman, actor
• Jesse Ramsden, inventor of the Ramsden theodolite
• Sir Richard Saltonstall, colonist
• Sir Henry Savile, bible translator
• Percy Shaw, inventor of Cat's Eyes, used on public roads
• Ed Sheeran, singer/songwriter
• Robin Simon, guitarist
• Sir Matthew Smith, artist
• Oliver Smithies, Nobel Laureate
• Herbert Akroyd Stuart, inventor of the Hot Bulb Engine (ancestor to the diesel engine)
• John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (1691–1694)
• Brian Turner, chef, restaurateur and TV personality
• John E. Walker, Nobel Prize winning chemist
• Emma Williams, West End musical theatre actress
• John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, chairman of the Wolfenden committee
• Matthew Wolfenden (actor), actor in ITV's Emmerdale
• Patrick Woodroffe, science fiction and fantasy artist
• Frank Worthington, footballer

 

[PeteXXX]

Gary Rhodes.... eeerr... that's it.

If you can count Petts Wood as being kind of Orpington, one of the boffins that designed a lot of the electronics and communications in the Post Office Tower came from there. I can't remember his name but I really fancied his daughter, Janet. Sadly it was unrequited love/lust....
(of Janet, not him before you ask)

 

[FrankCrank]

...my home town back there is Reading, which is known as the 3 B's - Beer, Bulbs and Biscuits. Respectively - Simonds Brewerey, Sutton Seeds, Huntley & Palmers.

Where I live now, Banglen - Thailand, could be known as the 3 F's - Farms, Factories and F**k all else.......... ......I jest - great place to live....

 

[Easytigers]

The only thing I think Wollaston is famous for is that it's the home of Dr. Martens shoes (oh...and there's a road called "Bell End"!)

 

[stephec]

The only thing I think Wollaston is famous for is that it's the home of Dr. Martens shoes (oh...and there's a road called "Bell End"!)

There's a Nob End about three miles from my house.

I must've set someone up nicely for a punchline there?

 

[Maverick Goose]

Born in Stoke on Trent, so take your pick from J.Wedgwood, R.Williams and Lemmy.

Live in Buxton so I guess the bottled water is the most known thing.

Work in Macclesfield but dont have a clue im afraid.

Echo and the Bunnymen played at Buxton Opera House in 1981. Ian Curtis (Joy Division) was from Macc. And then there were the Macc Lads....

 

[young Ed]

local vilage is the most haunted in england, Pluckely in kent. although i've never seen a ghost but plenty of drunken youths 'ghost hunting' and plenty of (sober) police on halloween, nothing but a pain in the back side for local residents
Cheers Ed

 

[stephec]

Echo and the Bunnymen played at Buxton Opera House in 1981. Ian Curtis (Joy Division) was from Macc. And then there were the Macc Lads....

We're the lads from Macc.................

 

[MrFixed]

Probably most famous thing from Bolton in recent years.

 

[Firestorm]

Famous
the Worlds lonvgest pleasure pier

Infamous
the outdoor swimming pool in which Ian Dury contracted polio

 

[mjr]

Although I live in Hanworth according to the Post Office I'm in Feltham home of (well at least birthplace of)

I'm not a fan !

Clearly, else you'd know he was born in Zanzibar, but lived in Feltham for a while.

 

[Moon bunny]

Bernadette Devlin went to my old school.

 

[martint235]

Not my town but I may as well jump on the Ashes bandwagon and say Jimmy Anderson went to my school