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Riverwalk Tue 27-Jan-15 11:17:15

A pop star from Taiwan held his lavish wedding in Selby Abbey and reception at Castle Howard - North Yorkshire is now expecting a tourism boom from wealthy Asians. All well and good.

According to the Daily Mail:

N Yorkshire gains international notoriety as a result of this wedding

confused

Wedding

vampirequeen Wed 28-Jan-15 15:00:57

As a born and bred Hullensian I'd just like to say that we don't 'ave much sner but it siles down with rain loads.

TriciaF Wed 28-Jan-15 16:11:55

grin Vampirequeen - I lived in Hull for many years, worked with children with reading problems. Among other things they'd never heard of "h"!
And the teachers were nunty.

rosequartz Wed 28-Jan-15 16:24:08

Eeh by gum, I didn't know that whenim.
I do hope your DH wasn't 'smirking'!
Like most of Broadchurch being filmed in Clevedon.

I munna tell the joke about the road from Yorkshire to Lancashire (or vice versa) which DH enjoys so much!

Nunty is a new one on me! confused

Galen Wed 28-Jan-15 17:50:38

Clevedon and Portishead where I live.

Katek Wed 28-Jan-15 17:58:15

All this Yorkshire has put me in mind of Dickon in The Secret Garden! I lived there for a while....father stationed at Dishforth and I went to Ripon Girls' High !

Ana Wed 28-Jan-15 18:04:12

'Smirking Area' that was it! (Sorry, the Victoria Wood sketch just came back into my head just then...)

rubysong Wed 28-Jan-15 19:05:34

I was born, bred and educated in the Hull area and have enjoyed reading this thread. Let's hear it for 'Ull! It is a very 'different' place full of contrasts and with its own culture. We are looking forward to the Year of Culture and hope to spend lots of time there when it happens.
We live in Cornwall now and will be visiting Clevedon next Monday/Tuesday so I will look out for Broadchurch sites (I thought it was filmed in Dorset. Which bits are Clevedon?)

rosequartz Wed 28-Jan-15 20:19:43

I think there's a link on the Broadchurch thread.

Oh, found it again:
www.westbay.co.uk/broadchurch/locations.php

rubysong Wed 28-Jan-15 22:33:39

Thanks Rose that makes interesting reading.

Riverwalk Wed 09-Aug-17 18:50:30

Reviving an old thread that I started.

Today I was checking the exact location of the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road in an attempt to dodge as much of the rain as possible.

Following a link on the theatre's website I'm led to believe that the area is 'notorious' for large theatres and even larger productions.

I know that language develops but surely notorious still means being famous for something bad, e.g. many brothels or pickpockets not theatres? hmm

Garrick

MamaCaz Sat 12-Aug-17 21:45:12

I agree with you, Riverwalk, so was a tad put out to find this definition on dictionary.com:

2 publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait:
a newspaper that is notorious for its sensationalism.
Synonyms: notable, renowned, celebrated, prominent, conspicuous, famous, widely known.