Originally Posted by samkydd

What about good old Narch Bitter (Norwich Bitter) it made Watney's Red Barrel taste almost like beer!

Originally Posted by kelp

Some pages back, someone mentioned Happisburgh!

Originally Posted by Moor Larkin

I thought Westward Ho! was the only place-name that employed a 'shout-mark'; as I still call them, from primary school......

Originally Posted by Steve Crook

It is, or the only place in the UK certainly. There are other places around the world like Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec.

But any place-name can be at the end of a sentence with an exclamation mark at the end of that sentence.

Steve

Originally Posted by penfold

Just to let you all know the militant wing of British Silent Film appreciation is heading abroad in droves...

Originally Posted by samkydd

They were already there yonks ago which is why I left; the members of the parish council now hail mostly from trendy London boroughs and one from Holland, the village shop stopped selling pies but you can now buy twenty seven varieties of organic coffee bean, the pub scrapped the darts team and they now have bridge evenings, there are more second hand book and antique shops than you can shake a stick at (really useful if all you want to do is buy a hot pie), the population has trebled in 30 years and having discovered this rural idyll they're now all moaning because there's no big Tescos, IKEA, B&Q, motorways, street lamps, footpaths or a sodding airport close by!

The only comfort is that the real locals are still as menacing, anti-social and sinister as they ever were, and if you can't trace your ancestors directly back to Boudicca and The Iceni then you'll get short shrift from them bor, and whether you come from Suffolk, Southend or Surbiton you'll just be a "foreigner" who "hent roight!" until you abandon ship and head back home, feeling totally dejected with your head down and your iPod headphones dangling between your legs!

Originally Posted by Harleybloke

They'll miss Marcel this year.......................

Originally Posted by David Brent

Things cannot be all that bad in Britain.
World travellers have voted London's transport system the best in the world for the second year running.
London also topped the poll, by holiday review site TripAdvisor, for having the safest public transport, the best subway and the best taxis.
London was voted as having the fourth cleanest transport system in the world behind Washington DC, Tokyo and Paris.

On the down side London was also voted as having the most expensive transport system. Although it seems travellers were happy to pay that little extra for the better service on offer.

Dave.

Originally Posted by Steve Crook

Not bad for the oldest and most extensive rapid transit system (in terms of route lengths) in the world

It has got a lot better over the last few years. It went for a long time without any funding at all and just struggled along in a slow decline. But they're gradually replacing all the older trains and refurbishing the stations.

And of course London taxis are the best in the world. The training the drivers have to do to get a licence, known as The Knowledge, usually takes about 3 years! Jack Rosenthal did a very good TV drama about it, [The Knowledge (1969)]

Steve