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DOES ANYONE FAMOUS COME FROM YOUR TOWN...

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KerryLouise

KerryLouise Report 11 May 2008 01:49

Phil Taylor
Dave Harold
Steve Bould
Garth Crooks

Captain Smith (of the Titanic)

x x x

suzian

suzian Report 11 May 2008 01:40

The Likely Lads
The Fiirst electric light - Joseph Swann
the Rocket - Geo Stephenson
First journey of the Flying Scotsman - engine drivver was my gg grandfather - honest!

Lol Sue

KerryLouise

KerryLouise Report 11 May 2008 01:38

Sir Stanley Matthews

x x

KerryLouise

KerryLouise Report 11 May 2008 01:36

Slash . . . wasnt born in Stoke but grew up here

x x

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 11 May 2008 01:33

Will Mellor Actor


Joanna Whalley film star...

Kaz in a Tizz

Kaz in a Tizz Report 11 May 2008 01:29



Billy Shakespeare - playwright and poet from way back!

Wild Cat

Wild Cat Report 11 May 2008 01:21

Surf hi

suzian

suzian Report 11 May 2008 01:20

Gazza
Ant and Dec

Oh, and Me!

Lol Sue

KerryLouise

KerryLouise Report 11 May 2008 01:13

Paul Bown

x x x

KerryLouise

KerryLouise Report 11 May 2008 01:09

Alan Lake

Neil Morrissey

x x

suzian

suzian Report 11 May 2008 01:06

Peter Beardsley
Eric Burdon
Brian Johnson
Ian Le'Frenais
Bryan Ferry
Jimmy Nail
Ross Noble
Catherine Cookson
George Stephenson
Most of Dire Straits
Most of the Police
John Wesley
Bobby Robson
Both the Charlton Brothers


................... And Alan Shearer

they don't get much better than this!

Geordie Pride

Lol Sue


Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 11 May 2008 00:56

I remember going to Trentham (sp) gardens when I was a kid.....for the carnival

KerryLouise

KerryLouise Report 11 May 2008 00:55

Robbie Williams

Jonathan Wilkes

Anthea Turner

Nick Hancock

x x x

Silly Sausage

Silly Sausage Report 11 May 2008 00:50

Wayne Fontarna ( and the mind benders )

Lee Sharpe.....(foot baller )

Joan Bakewell ( journist )

Cogden ( he is in TW tree )


and me of course onece met never forgotton..lol

GI YID

GI YID Report 11 May 2008 00:10

Thomas Paine (the rights of man)

doryth

doryth Report 10 May 2008 22:37

Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch( 2 of the Shadows) went to school with my brother. The used to hang about my aunts corner shop playing the guitar.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 10 May 2008 22:34

from Cardiff

Shirly Bassey

just up the road from me, Tom Jones

Andrew Davis - dramatist - all those saucy period productions on BBC - he was in my class in school

(¯`*•.¸*Karen on the Coast*(¯`*•.¸

(¯`*•.¸*Karen on the Coast*(¯`*•.¸ Report 10 May 2008 20:43

Charles Dickens.

there are some more but the minds gone blank......ooh Rudyard Kipling lived here as a child,


Karen x

FUZZY BEAR

FUZZY BEAR Report 10 May 2008 20:27

where i come from...far too many to mention..where i live none that come to mind lol

Stan

Stan Report 10 May 2008 20:20

Same as you Colin I'm from Polesworth ,now live in Wales