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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Des Parrot
I’ll give Oxford a shout as it’s been missed so far.
cracking pubs and real ale
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
uncle bob
Cmon, All the same bar a cathedral
You have to be perfect to comment on cities and places to join this thread .
Please be aware of your unitary authorities and civil parishes
I get what you mean though Torquay as is Torbay .
If you stick strictly to CCMB City ruling and comments it sadly isolates many lovely places in Devon and Cornwall, you have the likes of Exeter .Plymouth and Truro which to be fair are not the greatest in that area .
If you fancy a real treat try the Berry head Hotel in Brixham right on the headland stunning views and lovely building.
:-):facepalm:
https://berryheadhotel.com/contact
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead
Belfast and Newcastle. Both cities, of course, but still full of personable, down to earth people with a good sense of humour. Also both have some great bars. I'd put Swansea in that category, too, as well as Glasgow (although I only spent a week there).
I have a soft spot for Portsmouth partly because of personal memories but also because it has some great history and is surrounded on either side by some truly beautiful places.
I'm a bit love/hate with London. I love visiting the place, I love the scale, diversity, and opportunity of it. Working there was horrendous though. I'd rather shit in my hands and clap than do rush hour on the Tube every day.
I spent my student life in Portsmouth (which to be fair was 30 years ago so it may have changed 🙂) and other than Old Portsmouth which is nice enough I wouldn’t put it in the same league as your other choices. I’m also intrigued as to the beautiful places surrounding it? Portsmouth is an island and the 3 places surrounding it are Havant & Waterlooville, Gosport and Hayling Island ... nothing special about any of them that I can remember, or are you talking about the Isle of Wight?
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
StraightOuttaCanton
I spent my student life in Portsmouth (which to be fair was 30 years ago so it may have changed 🙂) and other than Old Portsmouth which is nice enough I wouldn’t put it in the same league as your other choices. I’m also intrigued as to the beautiful places surrounding it? Portsmouth is an island and the 3 places surrounding it are Havant & Waterlooville, Gosport and Hayling Island ... nothing special about any of them that I can remember, or are you talking about the Isle of Wight?
I was thinking more Lee on the Solent on the one side, and Chichester, Arundel etc on the other.
It was actually Gosport that I lived in, in Fort Blockhouse right in the harbour. Stone's throw across the water from Gunwharf and the Spinnaker. Blockhouse itself has some incredible 15th century buildings. I think the MOD has sold it off now to real estate developers, although I may be mistaken.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
Surprised nobody’s mentioned Cornwall. Truro and Falmouth both nice places.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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William Treseder
Surprised nobody’s mentioned Cornwall. Truro and Falmouth both nice places.
Nice places. Not cities.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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jon1959
Nice places. Not cities.
Truro is.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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William Treseder
Truro is.
True Ro.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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jon1959
True Ro.
But not really cities though
Population of Truro is 18000
Thats about the size of Porthcawl
OK, its got a cathedral
So I suppose it qualifies but its a weak link
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
William Treseder
Truro is.
its not really , its a small town with a cathedral
Pop back later when you have thought of something else
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
its not really , its a small town with a cathedral
Pop back later when you have thought of something else
It's a city. God's Wonderful Raiway even naked a locom0tive after it, "City of Truro"!
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
City of Truro also holds the record as the first Steam driven locomotive to travel at 100 MPH
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
It's a city. God's Wonderful Raiway even naked a locom0tive after it, "City of Truro"!
Its a very sparsely populated place
Hereford is a city but its tiny
But its far bigger than Truro
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
Its a very sparsely populated place
Hereford is a city but its tiny
But its far bigger than Truro
Don’t think the OP mentioned populations. Just City’s. Pop back later when you have something interesting to say.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
William Treseder
Don’t think the OP mentioned populations. Just City’s. Pop back later when you have something interesting to say.
Its pretty obvious that when people talk about uk cities they are referring to London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol , Sheffield , Cardiff etc
It seems everyone has understood that on the whole
I would rather you didn't pop back but if you have to , talk about Derby or somewhere like that instead of somewhere they make custard
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Majorblue
London as I was born there and partially brought up before leaving as a teen but returned at 18 and now have a home close by.
Outside of that I actually prefer the rural villages but if pushed would say Chester, York, Bath and Bristol are all decent places.
Don’t get the love for Brighton as I find it a bit seedy and the beach is rubbish. If I had to pick a seaside city it would be Bournemouth but not sure that it has city status.
My wife and I stayed in a nice hotel on the seafront in Brighton. As we pulled in to the car park at the rear ,we witnessed two young, well dressed men shooting up. It was the first time we'd seen this and both found it shocking and extremely sad. The whole seafront area is grim, and littered with drugged up homeless youngsters who approach everyone for money. I thought the whole area was very down at heel and wouldn't rush back
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
Cambridge is good but totally overrun by tourists. Also my adopted home home town of Shrewsbuy. I actually live on the site of the old Gay Meadow football ground where many on here will have been to. Anyone else live on a former football ground?
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Shrewsbury Blue
Cambridge is good but totally overrun by tourists. Also my adopted home home town of Shrewsbuy. I actually live on the site of the old Gay Meadow football ground where many on here will have been to. Anyone else live on a former football ground?
Do you get flooded?
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Former Labour leader
Do you get flooded?
No because the houses are built on a hill but the communal garden regularly gets flooded in the winter. You can actually see swans swimming up it.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Shrewsbury Blue
No because the houses are built on a hill but the communal garden regularly gets flooded in the winter. You can actually see swans swimming up it.
My grandfather lived in one of the blocks of flats in Harlescott, Shrewsbury
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Shrewsbury Blue
Cambridge is good but totally overrun by tourists. Also my adopted home home town of Shrewsbuy. I actually live on the site of the old Gay Meadow football ground where many on here will have been to. Anyone else live on a former football ground?
Have you got your own personal man in a coracle to fetch the ball when it goes over your garden wall?:hehe:
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Its pretty obvious that when people talk about uk cities they are referring to London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol , Sheffield , Cardiff etc
It seems everyone has understood that on the whole
I would rather you didn't pop back but if you have to , talk about Derby or somewhere like that instead of somewhere they make custard
There you go changing what has been said to agree with your own narrative again. TBG and Jon spent effort pointing out that larger places mentioned were not cities, presumably because the don't have cathedrals, but don't let that get in the way of your opinions sludge.
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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splott parker
Have you got your own personal man in a coracle to fetch the ball when it goes over your garden wall?:hehe:
Why does he live there you ask?
Mainly because it's a challenge, a challenge for me, it's a challenge for the coracle, and because it has been done before -
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Re: Favourite British City , Other Than Cardiff ?
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
There you go changing what has been said to agree with your own narrative again. TBG and Jon spent effort pointing out that larger places mentioned were not cities, presumably because the don't have cathedrals, but don't let that get in the way of your opinions sludge.
who invented the skip ?
who invented the skip ?