Sorry, it’s wrong. I do actually know the person they say is famous from Bath. Except Bill Bailey isn’t from Bath, he’s from Keynesham (sneer, sneer).
Tsk, I mean……
Sorry, it’s wrong. I do actually know the person they say is famous from Bath. Except Bill Bailey isn’t from Bath, he’s from Keynesham (sneer, sneer).
Tsk, I mean……
It’s K E Y N S H A M, as any listener to Horace Batchelor on Radio Luxembourg in the 1960s can tell you.
Damn right!
One born fairly close to me was Esme Haywood, a bloke who played cricket for Somerset between 1925 and 1927, who judging by his name seems to have been somewhat ahead of his time.
Famous though?
Bill Bailey, “actor”, “funny”, that one? He belongs to the same unfunny trio of so-called comedians with Phil Jupitus and the fucking midget whose name I can never remember. They’re so fucking edgy, LOL!
He started out in a duo called the Rubber Bishops. They were very funny indeed. With a bloke called Toby Longworth.
It’s not very good, is it? Niall Ferguson certainly went to the same school as me, about half a mile from where his name pops up, but it’s an independent. His family lived over the Clyde in Ibrox. Oh, and wait… sportsmen. Andy Murray’s famously from Dunblane. Sheesh.
@BiTiN: H. Samuel Everite, surely?
Here’s the great man, correcting Tim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydQ8I-qLH4o
A bloke from my local village murdered someone. Does that count?
Don’t know the names, it was a long time ago.
Ian McKellen was born close to where I live. Interestingly he is Godfather to some distant relative of mine too.
The famous person born near me (same hospital in fact) was “John Noakes” of Blue Peter and “Get down Shep” fame.
I’m pretty okay with that.
Chippenham – Jeremy Corbyn
I see
Fun enough, but a bit screwy – you can see John Lennon, Kenny Everett, Pete Burns and Keith Chegwin, but not Paul McCartney. Which does seem a bit odd, really.
Not a very accurate site. It has 60s activist Abbie Hoffman as being born in Worcester, UK, when he was born in Worcester, Mass.
Mass what? Mass Protest? 🙂
Nice one, John!
I worked in the Royal Oak pub in Nailsea, where I spent my secondary school years. The same Royal Oak pub where the Worzels recorded their epochal live album.
Beat that!
OH easy. My last address was in the London Boro of Westminster. The Queen. A name might ring a bell…
I agree it’s not very good. I was looking at Brissy. And although I could see that drongo CRudd, they didn’t have MEE!!!!!!