Your top 6 recommendations for sightseeing in your hometown

[ebikeerwidnes]

If I change to having my current home as my home town then it would be Widnes

Not that old a place as apparently a lot of it was a flood risk and boggy in the old days

but there is SPike Island that was the centre of the Chemical Industry in the area
and later on was famous for a rock concert
and the start of the Sankey Canal - AKA the ST Helens Canal - the first proper canal in the country (I think)
built to service the Chemical industry

And the "poisoned Gold Course" at the back of our house
at one point the stream on the edge of it had signs saying do not pick up balls (GOLF balls!!) that go in the stream
apparently is was full of arsnic!!!!

The whole place was closed down for decontamination before I moved here

and there is the Catalyst Museum - a museum dedicated to the Chemical industry - which is quite good - I volunteered there pre-Covid helping out with the computery things

there is also an old church in the North of the town where it is higher up

and teh Silver Jubilee bridge - previously just known as the Wides-Runcorn bridge which is a great steel structure over the Mersey
now there are two bridges and the roads have been changed to make fidning the old one pretty difficult unless you know the roads - means the new one gets all the traffic
and next to it the old Victorian railway bridge which is pretty impressive

Also there is teh place where the previous transporter bridge used to start (or end depending)

To the North is Farnworth which is an old village dating back to Angle Saxon time and has it's own history - including being attacked by a Griffin!!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Are you familiar with the Wyndham Arms ?

Not to my knowledge, but it is now on my list. We regularly visit the Dolphin Hotel in Weymouth which is a Hopback pub. In the distant mists of time Mrs Tkk and myself were in Salisbury and we stumbled across a " no smoking " pub which was rare back then.

 

[Profpointy]

Rochester

The Castle
The Cathedral
The Russian Submarine
Fort Amhurst (Napoleonic Fort)
Historic Dockyard
The High Street (15 pubs and bars)

We're haphazardly visiting the cathedral cities, particularly those we've never had cause to visit previously. The list above does promote Rochester up the list a bit

 

[YMFB]

Not to my knowledge, but it is now on my list. We regularly visit the Dolphin Hotel in Weymouth which is a Hopback pub. In the distant mists of time Mrs Tkk and myself were in Salisbury and we stumbled across a " no smoking " pub which was rare back then.

We were thrown out of the New Inn when my brother lit up a large cigar. He passed away in August 1999 so it was before then.

the Wyndham was the first Hopback pub, Summer Lightning or Citra are my preferred pints.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Strictly speaking, my hometown, as in that of my birth and upbringing, was Birmingham. My selection from my memories of the 70’s/early 80’s would be
Bournville Village
Sarehole Mill (Tolkein’s Shire)
Lickey Hills
the vertiginous top deck bus ride over the Camp Hill flyover (yes I know that’s no longer there)
the fabulous Gas Street Basin, I don’t know whether this has survived gentrification

 

[Andy in Germany]

I technically live in Rottenburg am Neckar, which is a bit overshadowed by its famous neighbour of Tübingen about 10km/8miles away. However, Rottenburg is just as attractive and a lot quieter and if I put a full list of attractions we'd be here all week. Here's the main ones:

1. Old City centre,
2. Cathedral, (and a whole stack of museums and exhibitions related to the monastery and seminary)
3. Roman remains all over the place, including in a school basement, with the Sumelocenna-Museum of Roman life.
4. The Weggental Baroque pilgrimage church,
5. The river and water front, with Punts and canoe tours.
6. Swabian Jura, (A UNESCO Biosphere) range to the south, with all manner of possibilities, and lots and lots of cycling, (Including Mountain bike tours)
7. And of course the 360km / 223mile (mostly) car free and surfaced Neckar Valley Cycleway. This diverges from the Rhine cycleway in Mannheim and is (mostly) car free and surfaced for the entire route. Having cycled a fair bit of the route, Rottenburg is on one of the most attractive sections.