Towns others make fun of

Hove, actually.
Harwich for the continent, Frinton for the incontinent. (Does it still not have a MacDonalds? If so, I salute it.)

Glamma - I agree that the Wirral has some lovely villages and countryside. I can't do the accents in print, but there is a big difference between Kirby (scouse) and West Kirby (BBC).
We kept our sailing boat at Heswall - is there still a wonderful ice-cream parlour at Parkgate?

Don't know which post to comment on first:
Pratt's Bottom - lovey memories of being dropped there on a school trip to do a land use survey (would they do that now?)
Ancestors ran a big laundry in Tunbridge Wells but the fortune went down the drain
Went to Swindon every week when daughter got into the dance centre there so found things to like - unpretentious like Reading, Old town, a church Betjeman raved about, the Steam Museum is fantastic for Gkids , but the roundabouts (road sort) let it down.
Liverpool I love - lots of work trips there & lovely people, Sefton Park, the Mersey.
Oxford - lots of nice bits, the Ashmolean & wonderful old fashioned Pitt-Rivers of course but I hate going there - such awful traffic - trips round colleges too expensive, horribly crowded - best in winter, it's the wrong shade of blue & punt from the wrong end. Now go to Reading for big shops instead (I never have to go at night) & I can get to R by train.
Really like Birmingham - walked from the station to Jewellery Quarter last year- wonderful history & people, great Museum & buildings.

Yes Greatnan Nicholl's ice cream parlour is still there making the most delicious combinations you can think off,my favourite is rum & raisin in fact we where up there just two weeks ago for lunch at the Old Quay on the front then had a strool along the front,it still attracts lots of visitors.Mostyn House Independent School has now closed and is being converted to apartments,such a shame but I think they have to keep the frontage the same as the building has some sort of listing on it.

I have lived near Windsor, Canterbury, and Chester and I am ashamed to admit that I missed out all the things that tourists are supposed to do!
I love Oxford- have you noticed on Morse/Lewis they can always find parking spaces?

I feel I have to put in a good word for Hull - there are some good 19C buildings and great shopping malls. I can't deny that there are some very tough estates around the town. Two of my grandchildren chose Hull University and enjoyed the social life of the town

The only town of which I have unhappy memories is Mold - I never thought I would be subject to racism!

What did they decide was reasonable Galen? You're always coming out with these little gems[envious emoticon]

Most towns seem to have somewhere else that is the but of their jokes. In Sheffield it is Barnsley.
In local Congleton I think it is Biddulph Moor.

Eastbourne - Sunny Cemetery of the South.

Gadaboutgran, excuse me! Oxford has the right shade of blue and we use the correct end of the punt! I have lived in the Oxford area all my life and although I agree the city centre and it's traffic are awful, I am very happy in a village just outside.

Glamma We went to Liverpool a couple of years ago. Thought it was a lovely city. Would love to go again.

petallus; even Rich Hall mentioned Bognor in a disparaging way in his programme about Texas .

I live in Bracknell - need I say more? Still, at least it's not Slough. If I go to Reading I go by train because I can't find my way round by road at all, but I do like the shops and I've been to the Food Festival for the last two years and had a good time.

Two grandsons have 'Swindon' on their birth certificates (they live in Cirencester) and a granddaughter and a grandson have 'Slough' on theirs (they live in Maidenhead) : I was very upset at the time

"From Hull, Hell and Halifax, good Lord deliver me" is said to be the thief's plea against severe punishment. Hull had a scaffold and Halifax had a gibbet ( a sort of guillotine), and Hell speaks for itself. Both are actually very pleasant towns; I was born in Halifax.

Think of it as North Windsor Gally. Was it Ricky Gervaise who said that?

I was glad to leave London and have settled back in Birmingham very well except for a few annoying people.
When I was given my redundancy / early retirement I could not get out of the office fast enough and my house was up for sale the next morning.
I was amused when I was sent on a retirement course a few weeks later and they said don't move for a year. Think things over.
Too late. My house had been sold.
I also like Cardiff and Liverpool.

Frank

Malmesbury, Tewkesbury, Wednesbury, Thursby (is there one?) Fribay (OK I made that one up). I have had such a nice evening drinking Pimms with friends, I feel quite inspired.

Deeda - a handbag?

grandimars Elsewhere in the UK a gibbet is a stand where the bodies of those executed were left hanging and rotting as a dire warning not to commit crime. There are still some of them around but, of course, they are no longer in use. Why is the one in Halifax different?

Birmingham is my favourite city and to go there by narrowboat is fabulous.

Hi I was born in Huddersfield which was a bit of a joke following the Smash advert with the aliens! we were almost neighbours Grandimars

absent The gibbet in Halifax was an early guillotine which actually decapitated petty criminals, and was believed to be unique in the country. It came into use in the 16th century as an alternative to beheading with a sword or an axe, and was used for well over 100 years, until Oliver Cromwell banned execution by beheading as a punishment for petty theft.

seasider My grandparents lived at Stainland and I used to go into Huddersfield with my grandma,, catching the trolley bus from Outlane.

Bunbury was somewhere useful wasn't it. I thought Slough Comprehensive was famous( Eton)
Middlesbrough is in the news today about alcoholic women. My DH said if I lived there I'd be an alcoholic.And in Durham we used to say about Pelton Fell they eat their young .

There's a Bunbury 100 miles south of Perth, Western Australia.

It always amuses me to think the inhabitants of Slough have a wonderful view of Windsor Castle which means that the inhabitants of Windsor Castle have a wonderful view of Slough, plus low flying planes going over every few minutes in & out of Heathrow. Wm Conqueror didn't have much foresight or a proper house survey done.