Your top 6 recommendations for sightseeing in your hometown

[Drago]

There was a beautiful light layer of snow over Northampton this morning.

But true to form, somebody stole it. Its probably in the window at Crack Converters.

 

[DRM]

Leeds:
Royal Armouries Museum
City Museum
Industrial Museum
Temple Newsam house and gardens
Roundhay Park and Tropical World
Thackray Museum of Medicine

Leeds Urban Bike Park, just don't let your bike out of your sight!

 

[Toshiba Boy]

In the vast, sprawling metropolis that is Blue Anchor, here on the West Somerset coast, all circa 130 properties of it, we have:

The beach.

The West Somerset Steam Railway, including our quintessentially British old school railway station.

The superb coastal foot and cycle path.

The field behind our garden along the coast, is said to be the site of a battle, c876AD, when the locals saw off them pesky Vikings. "Ger orf my land!"

Gorgeous views to North Hill to the West, Exmoor one mile inland to the South, the Quatocks to the East, and the Welsh coast to the North.

Ah, a 6th .... ummm, hang on, ... oh yeah,

We have a red phone box on the sea front, that isn't a 2nd hand book store, or a charity outlet, but, wait for it ..... a still working public phone.

 

[craigwend]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6nq8jqvdvo

 

[Jameshow]

Here's the list of worthy attractions in Leatherhead:

Here too for Slough....

 

[Dogtrousers]

Here too for Slough....

Slough has Station Jim!

A 132 year old stuffed dog is a powerful draw, pulling in the tourists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxe489x4j8o

 

[Gunk]

Leeds Urban Bike Park, just don't let your bike out of your sight!

My son is currently at Leeds University so we we’ve been a few times now. It’s a fabulous city.

 

[Dogtrousers]

In the 90s I was working in Leeds. One week there were problems with hotel bookings and I I was staying in a large but rather crumbling hotel that I'd not been to before. One evening I got in and, as there was no room service menu I phoned reception. They asked what I wanted, I said something like a pasta salad. They said they'd see what they could do. Eventually my room service pasta salad arrived.

It was a plate with some cold tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce and some lettuce. Yum.

 

[Gunk]

In the 90s I was working in Leeds. One week there were problems with hotel bookings and I I was staying in a large but rather crumbling hotel that I'd not been to before. One evening I got in and, as there was no room service menu I phoned reception. They asked what I wanted, I said something like a pasta salad. They said they'd see what they could do. Eventually my room service pasta salad arrived.

It was a plate with some cold tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce and some lettuce. Yum.

Sounds like my late Mothers cooking, bless her!

 

[alicat]

As a Leodensian by birth, I think the arcades need a mention.

 

[alicat]

Lichfield:

Samuel Johnson's birthplace museum and the market square alongside
The cathedral and Prince Rupert's mound
St Chad's well
Pipe Green and the Pipehill nature reserves
St John's without the Barrs and Dr Milley's almshouses and the cruck house on Stowe St
The Erasmus Darwin museum and herb garden

Fab place to live (apologies to Yorkshire which is a good place to come from)

 

[Dadam]

As a Leodensian by birth, I think the arcades need a mention.

Fair comment. I'm not interested in shopping so these weren't on my radar.

There's also the Corn Exchange which is an impressive building. According to wikipedia, one of only 3 corn exchanges still functioning as a trade centre, albeit independent retailers not trading in grains.
Some nice Victorian and Regency architecture. Plus a smattering of appalling Brutalist buildings (Merrion Centre, I'm looking at you!)

 

[derrick]

Crown and horseshoe,
The ridgeway tavern,
The wonder,
King Head.
Mary Maddens.
Moon under water, for a cheap beer, (wetherspoons)

 

[Webbo2]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6nq8jqvdvo

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Obviously written by someone who has never been there. A trip down Beverley road, Hessle road, Springbank or Preston Road might change their thought never mind a trip to Bransholme or Orchard park.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Leeds:
Royal Armouries Museum
City Museum
Industrial Museum
Temple Newsam house and gardens
Roundhay Park and Tropical World
Thackray Museum of Medicine

Elland Road