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  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    [cite]Posted By: razil[/cite]Where the feck is Wessex.. doesn't really exist anymore does it/if it ever did?

    Wessex existed, it was one of seven Saxon kingdoms that existed before the Norman conquest, it's a contraction of West Saxon kingdom.
  • Steve Dowman
    Steve Dowman Posts: 2,406
    as essex is east saxon, sussex south saxon, middlesex the middle saxons, Kent was more Jutish i believe.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,964
    they pay 'very' close attention to you in the local lapdance club *ahem*
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,352
    Correct, originally from Germany in fact.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,376
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Morts scored a brilliant goal there - I think his first for the club - picking the ball up on the half-way line, running past a couple of defenders before scoring from 20 yards.
    i think he beat 5/6 players before scoring
  • Vinnie V.
    Vinnie V. Posts: 1,509
    It is home to the most irritating person in the world (sofa politician, vegan) my girlfriends best friend Twatalie who moved there a little while ago and instantly turned from life long spud to canary! Best place for her!
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,264
    HM Stationary Office use to be situated in Naarwich.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,118
    Trisha is filmed in Norwich
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]Trisha is filmed in Norwich

    I'm being 'entertained' by her on Thursday night.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,021
    - They've got the best fussball supporters in the world
    - Paul Ellis (CAFC legend) spoke up for me and sorted me out a ticket up there one year when CAFC ballsed up posting mine to me
    - Their kit makes you feel sick if you stare at it for too long - FACT
    - It has the biggest church/cathedral in ... er ... Norfolk. (but does anyone know where the second biggest one in Norfolk is?)
    - We went there on a school trip once and got involved in a "disturbance" with local yoot in the city centre. (We had them on their toes - for South London)
    - It's home to Winters Brewery, brewers of Winters Mild, Bitter, Golden, Revenge, Storm Force and Tempest (6.2%!)
    - 5th generation Norfolk folk have developed webbed feet to help them negotiate the Norfolk Broads in the dark.

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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,352
    Danny Mills was born there.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,118
    a common mistake by non inbreds is that the place is called spelt N-O-R-W-I-C-H when in fact it is spelt N-A-A-A-A-R-R-R-W-W-I-I-C-H-H-H
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,369
    There should be a Paul Ellis statue

    Proper Charlton Legend.

    And a good pal of oohaahmortimer. . . .
  • Steve Dowman
    Steve Dowman Posts: 2,406
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Solidgone[/cite]HM Stationary Office use to be situated in Naarwich.[/quote]

    they still are in their new private sector guises - TSO (printing) and Banner (stationery)
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    there half wits
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,352
    Where half wits?
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,879
    [cite]Posted By: razil[/cite]Where the feck is Wessex.. doesn't really exist anymore does it/if it ever did?

    It did exist. Read a Thomas Hardy novel or at least look at the inside cover and you'll have some idea of the area it covered. Careful with this though as the place names he uses are fictional.
    It's also mentionned in (at least one) Shakespeare play if I remember rightly.
    It was lost I think when all the counties were re-named.
    Could look it up somewhere but can't be arsed.
  • kmem4
    kmem4 Posts: 221
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Shag[/cite]I got a hand shandy off some bird on the coach up t here once[/quote]
    can u explain to my 13 year old boy what a hand shandy is . cheers
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,486
    Is it Ely?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,463
    edited September 2009
    53. N-O-R-W-I-C-H stands for Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home. Proving that Norfolk folk a) don't know how to spell knickers and b) don't even say "please" when they talk to their sisters.

    54. In 1144 a 12-year old boy called William was stabbed to death; his body found in woods north east of Norwich. It was believed his murderers were Jewish. So, on Feb 6 1190, almost every single Norwich Jew was slaughtered. All those that escaped (to the local castle) committed suicide.

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  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    55. I live there - (well a few miles away actually).
  • bingaddick
    bingaddick Posts: 8,184
    56. Phil Chapple went to school there.
  • Maglor
    Maglor Posts: 702
    [cite]Posted By: Off_it[/cite]- - It has the biggest church/cathedral in ... er ... Norfolk. (but does anyone know where the second biggest one in Norfolk is?)

    The Roman catholic Cathedral - in Norwich
  • Maglor
    Maglor Posts: 702
    People in Norfolk think that folks from Wisbeach (in the fens) are bakers
  • Maglor
    Maglor Posts: 702
    They don't make Colemans mustard there anymore
  • Maglor
    Maglor Posts: 702
    [cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]53.

    54.In 1144 a 12-year old boy called William was stabbed to death; his body found in woods north east of Norwich. It was believed his murderers were Jewish. So, on Feb 6 1190, almost every single Norwich Jew was slaughtetred. All those that escaped (to the local castle) committed suicide.

    I think that was York?
  • holyjo
    holyjo Posts: 1,334
    It has a large and vibrant YMCA working with thousands of young people and their families
  • Spankie
    Spankie Posts: 1,537
    Norwich City is one of three football teams the City boasts. The others being Norwich United (Eastern Counties League) and AFC Norwich (Anglian Combination). Norwich City have won the League Cup twice in 1962 and 1985. Apparently they hate Ipswich Town.
  • Nelsenout
    Nelsenout Posts: 661
    That stupid song 'all aboard City'
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    In 1613, Norwich became a focal point for the occult when over 500 witches moved to the city over a six month period.

    Distressed by a plague of frogs along with 37% of the population catching genital warts, a vendetta was began by locally infected vigilantes which turned into a full blown withchunt after they were supported by the then Mayor, Del Smith , who instigated the ancient method of witchfinding vis a vis, the ducking stool, in the River Yare.

    Because of the large numbers, ducking stools were provided throughout the region in all the larger areas of water, to ensure every possible witch was found. Several hundred haggard old women were subjected to this ritual and their rotting, bloated corpses were left floating in the stretches of water as a lesson to all.

    Ever since these areas have been known as the Norfolk Broads.

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