Hometowns

Hi All, I was born in Leicester, in 1942, and well remember our bike-rides to Bradgate Park and walking up to Old John. I left Leicester in 1957 to join the army. In 1966, I entered and completed the Nijmegan (Netherlands) marches. For a soldier who worked in an office that was considered an excellent feat. I just had to show the rest of the camp that I could do it. I moved to Lincoln, in 1969. People asked me why. I said it was because of the great industrial development going on there - I had seen a sign saying Industrial Development site. Lincoln, with its beautiful cathedral on the hill and brayford wharf/harbour down hill, is pretty special. Even though it also contains a huge amount of the new University buildings.

I have made two visits to Perth in Australia.  Each time I was asked to go home because of the extreme weather conditions I took with me.  273 lightning strikes recorded in one night in Perth in November 1998!

Hi, its interesting that not many people who have posted on this thread still live in the towns where they grew up.

I'm sure there must  be more of you though, let us know if you are one of them.

Hi everyone, I was born in Portland, Dorset in 1949. I left there in 1971 to work in London and eventually moved to Scotland, have recently moved back to England, now living in Somerset.

I have so many fond memories of Portland and still go back there as often as possible. I love to stand at Portland Bill when there is a gale force wind blowing, especially during the winter months, that's when you see and feel the real power of nature.

As kids we used to spend much of our time, during the holidays, fishing for tadpoles over on the "common", or helping the fishermen pull in their nets full of Mackerel and getting a few mackerel as payment!

We used to swim on the little beach at the back of Portland castle, a favourite place with all the kids in those days, especially as there were a couple of old barges there that we used to swim in and play on.

We used to look forward to November when the "fair" came to Portland.

Of course Portland is now back in the news with its new sailing academy, as the venue for the sailing events of the 2012 Olympics,

For anyone who hasn't been to Portland, try to get there sometime in your lifetime, it's a very special place.

Hi Derek

You're right about the Malverns, they really are beautiful. I thought i was a little biased as i grew up there, so its nice hearing from someone else who regards them as highly as I do. I can't wait to go back there for a visit, but then a single visit is never enough. I miss the views, the walks, the sunsets, everything about them. I don't recall visiting Tenbury, though probably did at some stage as a young boy. I really liked Worcester though and visited the city often, have many a fond memory of there, including a wonderful boat ride down the severn.

 I was born in Pretoria South Africa and moved to Cape Town where I married my pen-friend. Cape town is known as the mother city of South Africa.

Where England has a castle overlooking most cities Cape Town has a mountain in the shape of a table. It is a coastal city and in summer the wind blows up to 50km .Normally a thick white cloud falls over table mountain which looks like a table cloth covering the mountain. It is a beautiful city-a peninsula-I would highly recommend Cape Town as a tourist destination.