katyjay 5,091 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 No matter how mundane or boring our lives are, we all must have something interesting about the area we live in, that not many folks might know. If we all put one thing down at a time, we can stretch this out a bit! We might learn something, you never know. Coconino County, which I live in, is the 2nd largest county in the whole of the United States, coming 2nd to San Bernadino County, California. We have 18,661 square miles. I know you were dying to know this. Next please. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Kimberley has the lowest crime rate in Notts ( bet you're all jealous now ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Bramcote has the best looking women !laughing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bip 88 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Sawley has the ugliest Bip. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Bramcote has the best looking women !laughing! Not fer long Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 you old smoothie Kev !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 !faint! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Johnny Briggs (Mike Baldwin in Coronation Street ) was evacuated to Winsford during the war. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 But they let him back tho Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Georgia has the best hog jowls and grits! !jumping! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mariag 4 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Georgia has the best hog jowls and grits! !jumping! Dubai has the most sand!Apparently ITV thursday night 9pm is showing Piers Morgan in Dubai! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 The airport in New Hudson (Y47) where I keep N597W was originally built after the war to train returning soldiers who wanted to use their GI bill to become pilots. It originally had two grass runways! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Arizona's economy is based on the 5 C's. Cattle, Citrus, Climate, Copper and Cotton. Loppylugs, you could tell us Georgia's 5 P's of their economy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Peanuts, Peaches, Pecans, Pine trees, and Peanuts. Oh! and Jimmy Carter, but nobody likes to brag about that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 and peanuts ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 We have the Piggly Wiggly too!! !hungr! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Take away a peanut and put in poultry. I learned that on a Deep South tour many moons ago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Poultry!!! of Course. Now why didn't I think of that? flyswat You can smell 'em a mile a way if you happen to live near chicken houses Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Chilwell was the place where the first UK wheelie bins were used. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 26, 2009 Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 My mums house (In Carlton ) was the first house in the U.k. (Maybe even the world) to be connected up to a metal telegraph pole!! We had a visit from a council representative to tell us. I thought we might get a "Blue Plaque" to prove it !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted January 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 The Piggly Wiggly makes Safeway sound pretty boring. First time I heard of it, I thought folks were kidding. We went to a poultry farm on the southern tour, pretty stinky, but a huge industry. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,653 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 We've not got any shops in our village, In fact we only got a little pub and a church Rog Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Whats Piggly Wiggly when it's at home ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 The first time I heard the name of those shops was in the film 'Driving Miss Daisy'....didn't show a close up though...I guessed from that it was a group of stores. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firbeck 860 Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Braintree was the home of those appalling pre-war steel Crittall windows, found everywhere, now owned by the French, with a token, high tech, but unused, factory, still in the town. Bocking and Braintree was the home of Courtaulds Textiles, now long gone, though Julian Courtauld, a lovely man, the direct descendant of those famous Hugenots, is Liz's boss and lets us keep our ponies in his barn for naff all. You'll know the company Beefsteak, Courtenhams Haulage at Blackmore End, you may have delivered there, I'd be interested to know if you did. Not many people know this. In WW1 the Sherwood Foresters and Notts and Derby Regiment were conscripted up your way, trained up, shoved onto trains down to Hatfield and forced to march over to Bocking, causing mayhem and fear and loathing in the towns on the way, particularly Dunmow, where they got drunk and slept in peoples front gardens. On arriving here, they were billeted in local houses nearby and ordered to dig defensive trenches around the town, just in case the Germans invaded, unlikely, but having marched miles they were then forced to protect Braintree from the Hun, poor sods. Not much light relief before they died in the real trenches. It's very sad how I've never been able to find any evidence of their efforts either, nothing remains, though there is a bit of an odd ditch in father-in-laws next door neighbours garden where they apparantley started this exercise, does anyone know more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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