Famous people from your town

[Ivan Cloherty]

Agatha Christie and not forgetting the originators of Fawlty Towers based on the management and staff of an actual Torquay Hotel

[j.sabourn]

What about Richard Burton from Port Talbot.. Unless someone has already put up and haven't seen... John S.

[Jim Brady]

Tom Jones was born in Treforest.Thats not unusual.
Regards.
Jim.

[alf corbyn]

red led ted. whats the reference to Potters Bar?. its the town on the outskirts of london where the train jumped the rails in the station, the crew of the last zeppelin are buried there. its not far from where i was born.

[j.sabourn]

George Washington from County Durham, also George Stevenson. Jacky Milburn from Newcastle. The Wooden Dolly North Shields ex South Shields. JS

[Jim Brady]

Alf its Potters Barn,notice the n on the end.It must've been a guy named Potter who looked down on Waterloo (where it is )from Everton Brow or some high part of L'pool and decided to build this park which was supposed tobe similar to a place on the battlefield of Waterloo.Here's a picture of Potters Barn.download (1).jpg
Regards.
Jim.

[Keith Tindell]

Anthony Mingella, film director, from the IOW, where his parents have an ice cream factory, lick that !!!, KT

[happy daze john in oz]

Liverpool, what about the four lads from Penny Lane??

[cappy]

Anthony Mingella, film director, from the IOW, where his parents have an ice cream factory, lick that !!!, KT

what about the second greatest admiral who took over from nelson our lord Collingwood a Geordie of course

[cappy]

my missus for putting up with me for55 years......a proper shields lass