About your town/city?

[Khuntlipz]

My City, an old city, was the first ever naval port in the world. It also spawned the first ever "public house" in the world. It's name "Portsmouth" evolving from "Portesmuða" was founded by a Saxon warrior called Port...thus the name of the city "Portsmouth" invariably gave it's name to the word "port" which is now a term for an industrial sea-town...thanks to "port" the saxon warrior.

Historically probably one of the most important cities in the world, with regards to militarial and industrial progress.

[muy_thaiguy]

My town? Well, surprisingly enough, when it was first founded, it would have fit the stereotypical Western town. Maybe not as many shoot outs, but certainly a lot of lawlessness. Oh, and a lot of prostitutes in the beginning as well. And I mean a lot.

[Anarkistsdream]

My town is home of the first Shopping Cart ever used at a store...

[Curmudgeonx]

The starter motor, the airplane, and most importantly, the poptop can (prior to this invention, one had to use a "church-key" to open their canned beverage), plus about thirty other significant inventions. My house was built by the person who invented/perfected the freeze proof toilet. A whole lot more important than some port city in jolly ol' england that also probably invented sexually transmitted diseases.

[reminisco]

my city was the location of the birth of the United States. all planned and drawn up over beer and ale, much of which came from the brewery William Penn opened and in which they used his family recipe.

so here's to getting drunk and fucking up the red coats!

AMERICA F*CK YEAH!
Kiss My Ass And Lick My Motherfucking Balls Yeah!

[InkL0sed]

NYC. 'nuff said.

[herndawg]

My hometown growin up started when a guys boat hit a sand bar and got stuck.
Lookin for the pretty gold stuff.

[Phil1580]

Birthplace of the American Navy....has some of the oldest still-standing homes in the U.S., back to the 1600's. President William Howard Taft summered there, & it is also author John Updike's hometown.

1st poster....I'm guessing that's Portsmouth somewhere in the U.K.? If so, you'll be proud to know that Portsmouth, New Hampshire is also the beautiful epitome of a "port" town.

[DAZMCFC]

my city was the location of the birth of the United States. all planned and drawn up over beer and ale, much of which came from the brewery William Penn opened and in which they used his family recipe.

so here's to getting drunk and fucking up the red coats!

AMERICA F*CK YEAH!
Kiss My Ass And Lick My Motherfucking Balls Yeah!

...and it was your great great great grandfather serving that beer.

[cena-rules]

we have the nestle factory

all your coffee and chocolate

[muy_thaiguy]

we have the nestle factory

all your coffee and chocolate

I prefer Hershey.

[Nickbaldwin]

Home of the motherfuckin' Reliant Robin

[firth4eva]

my city was the location of the birth of the United States. all planned and drawn up over beer and ale, much of which came from the brewery William Penn opened and in which they used his family recipe.

so here's to getting drunk and fucking up the red coats!

AMERICA F*CK YEAH!
Kiss My Ass And Lick My Motherfucking Balls Yeah!

...and it was your great great great grandfather serving that beer.

ROFL. Family business.

Many people, particularly Americans, will remember Warrington best as the location of Burtonwood RAF base, one of (if not the) largest Royal Air Force (RAF) bases in England and the largest US Air Force base outside the United States. During World War II, Burtonwood was visited by major celebrities like Humphrey Bogart and Bob Hope who entertained the GIs. The base was closed in 1993.

Was also used a lot in the Civil War because River Mersey runs through it. Oliver Cromwell, the leader at the only ever time we were a republic, also lived there for a while.

[billy07]

My City, an old city, was the first ever naval port in the world. It also spawned the first ever "public house" in the world. It's name "Portsmouth" evolving from "Portesmuða" was founded by a Saxon warrior called Port...thus the name of the city "Portsmouth" invariably gave it's name to the word "port" which is now a term for an industrial sea-town...thanks to "port" the saxon warrior.

Historically probably one of the most important cities in the world, with regards to militarial and industrial progress.

do you live in portsmouth, norse?

i thought you lived in emsworth, a wee village not even in the same county as portsmouth!

care to start again? about your village/hamlet?

[tzor]

I'll start off with my hamlet first. It was founded by eight families in 1671. "The spot for the village was chosen with care. There was a stream adequate for water power and abounding in seafood…good water for drinking…soil rich enough to grow essential crops, woodland for fuel, building material and food, topography to offer protection from the elements, meadowland for its grass."

The "town" created in 1792 when the existing town (settled in 1640) was divided into two.

My favorite story is when the original residents first saw shipments of tea they thought it was great between two slices of buttered bread. (I kid you not.)

[khazalid]

my city was taken from the english by robert the bruce in 1308. it boasts one of the world's busiest commercial heliports and dwindling oil reserves just off the coast. all the buildings are made of local granite, which sparkles like silver due to the unusually large amount of mica deposits in it. it is apparently one of the least religious cities in the uk and one of the universities is the fifth oldest in the english speaking world.

[Fruitcake]

Bath, England here.

One of the most historic places in the country. Romans availed themselves of the hot springs, and throughout the 2000 odd years since Bath has always been a place of suppposed elegance.

The best example of Georgian architecture found anywhere in the UK (In my opinion) can be found here. The Royal Crescent is a perfect semi circle of grand terraced mansions, with a huge example, sideways on, at each end. I always aspired to owning one, but alas they are way out of my limited means now. I did attend the concert staged by the Three Tenors on the lawns in 2003, a most amazing experience.

If you ever are in the UK, take a trip to Bath, it is worth your while.

Unfortunately, the local council, another bunch of mumbling mediocre morons, are creating havoc down by the river, fortunately the Circle and the Crescent are immune to it all up on the hill.

[DarrenMUFC]

do you live in portsmouth, norse?

i thought you lived in emsworth, a wee village not even in the same county as portsmouth!

care to start again? about your village/hamlet?

Haha!

The town of Emsworth lies within Portsmouth and S.E. Hampshire.

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/localpages/sou ... sworth.htm

So, it is not only in the same county, but also within the city district.

My word Billy, I'm beginning to think you do this on purpose.

[DarrenMUFC]

my city was taken from the english by robert the bruce in 1308. it boasts one of the world's busiest commercial heliports and dwindling oil reserves just off the coast. all the buildings are made of local granite, which sparkles like silver due to the unusually large amount of mica deposits in it. it is apparently one of the least religious cities in the uk and one of the universities is the fifth oldest in the english speaking world.

Aberdeen?

[Balsiefen]

My town is tiny but theres quite a bit if you think about it. not very influential though.

Probably originally settled by the celtish Coritani kingdom, it would have been a farming hamlet for the great salt marshes which are now the Lincolnshire coastal strip, being at the foot of the Wolds where most people lived. Not much is known about it during Roman times, it was probably either abandoned or simply too small to be mentioned, though the salt marshes were drained producing the most fertile land in Britain. In the dark ages however, it was a major town in the Kingdom of Lindissi, both under its early Romano-British era, and under the Anglic descendants of King Wintra I. As Lindissi became a powerful the town became richer, and stayed as such when Lindissi united with Mercia. Taken by the vikings moderetly early in their invasion, being east coast, it was part of the Danelaw burgh of Lincoln, before being retaken by the English. Became rich again from the wool trade during the middle ages when the black death killed off most of the peasants and the local lords built the tallest thatched building in Britain. Kept mostly agricultural from then on but had a woollen mill and brewery in Victorian times.

*Waits for everyone else to be bored to death*

[cicero]

Bath, England here.

One of the most historic places in the country. Romans availed themselves of the hot springs, and throughout the 2000 odd years since Bath has always been a place of suppposed elegance.

The best example of Georgian architecture found anywhere in the UK (In my opinion) can be found here. The Royal Crescent is a perfect semi circle of grand terraced mansions, with a huge example, sideways on, at each end. I always aspired to owning one, but alas they are way out of my limited means now. I did attend the concert staged by the Three Tenors on the lawns in 2003, a most amazing experience.

If you ever are in the UK, take a trip to Bath, it is worth your while.

Unfortunately, the local council, another bunch of mumbling mediocre morons, are creating havoc down by the river, fortunately the Circle and the Crescent are immune to it all up on the hill.

I live in the UK and, twentyish years ago, briefly lived in Bath.

In February this year I visited Bath as a tourist and did all those things I never got around to as a resident ... To the things mentioned by Fruitcake I'd add the free walking tours that start every day of the year outside the abbey, the Roman baths museum and the modern Baths which, whilst expensive, can be justified when on holiday.

I'll be going back ... it is fabulous.

[Kid_A]

I live in Northern Mexico (Los Angeles)

[kleep]

San Juan Capistrano, CA.

You know, the town with the swallows? Funny thing is, the swallows don't even come to our mission anymore. So all swallows day is good for is getting drunk and listening to cowboy music.

[unorthodoxt]

We have a river that is often in Field and Stream for the walleye. Area use to be the Great Black Swamp. Drained and now it is used for crops along with preserved wetlands. The old courthouse (and now library) was the site of a British artillery unit that was sieging Fort Meigs on the other side of the river during the War of 1812. That artillery was spiked by militia who then chased the British into the woods only to get slaughtered by Indians. There was also the site called Fallen Timbers where General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians in 1792(I think.) We sled on the place the Indians fled to but died because the British refused to protect them because they did not want to cause trouble with the USA at that point.

Also upriver into Lake Erie is the place were Oliver Hazard Perry attacked and captured an entire British Fleet. Thus sealing British defeat in the North West Front of the War of 1812.

The metropolitan area is also the home of the vaunted Jeep of World War 2 fame. And was also one of the biggest targets of a potential German bombing campaign of the USA (considering we are in between Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago.) Of course the Germans never had planes with that long of a range.

And more interesting. The area I live in is also the only time in history two states (Michigan was just about to become a State) fought a war against each other. Each state raised militia and sent them into the swamp where they both got lost (YES!) and after a while of marching Andrew Jackson demanded that both states cease the war. Ohio got my home area and Michigan go the Upper Peninsula.


That is my city. (Lived 14 years in Toledo and moved to Maumee where I have lived since.)

[AndrewLC]

Mine had like a populations of about 500 before WW2.

Then Hanford Neuclear site opened and now we're the 4th largest city in Washington.

So yeah. Everyone is here because of the bomb