General Chat

If we're talking about famous peope who came/lived /appeared in the same places as us....... In the 70's I used to see Chris Bonnington in Tesco's in Carlisle. My mate did the plumbing for Suzie Quatro in her house in the darkest depths of Essex in the 80's. I saw Rory Bremner in a little village near here about 3 years ago, and I saw Jilly Cooper at a point to point 2 weeks ago ( wonder what her next novel will be about) lol maggie

I was within kissing distance of Alan Rickman in Marks & Spencer :) BC

And mine are :- Ben Kingsley Christopher Eccleston Andy Crane Robert Powell Ben Kingsley Samia Ghadi

Chicken Now then lets see......... The Neville brothers went to my sons school in Bury, and moving towards you, I went to the same school as Victoria Wood (not at the same time though) on the Radcliffe border. And what about good old Fred (Dibnah) for Bolton? Part of his funeral procession went passed my Office....before I started working there though. Regards Bev X

Beckenham Palace is not far from me.

hiya chicken. sorry peter kay is worth 10 not 30 million. my husband was half asleep when he read it lol by the way peter was in wittakers shoe shop the other day buying his little boy some shoes. my mate was in as well x

peter sellers,born in castle road southsea.charles dickens lived in old portsmouth and james callaghan.who lived in copnor portsmouthxxxxxxxxxxxxx(:

Hi Chicken, Use to work with a lady who worked at Farnworth labour exchange and could remember Hilda B signing on there, quite often in a fancy fur coat and lots of bling. Believe at one time she had a chippie somewhere in Farnworth. Frank Finley's a Farnworth lad, worked with his niece in Bolton.

O.K. you want a list, here goes....... Johnathon and Paul Ross Alfred Hitchcock John Lill O.B.E. (Pianist) Cardinal Wiseman( First R.C. Archbishop of Westminster) Mr Barclay (of the bank) William Morris Sir Derek Jacoby Vivian Stanshall David Beckham Johnny Dankworth and those who have lived in the area.............. Frank Muir Ian Dury Ken Russell Peter Blake Miranda Richardson Meera Syal Simon Sharma Nearly forgot all in London borough of Waltham Forest. (Mainly Leyton, Leytonstone and Walthamstow)

steph my best friend from primary school lived in hilda baker's old house......just thought i'd give you that useless piece of information. chicken.

David Coverdale of 'Deep Purple' fame.

Hi chicken and Sandra, Hilda Baker is the most famous person I know from farnworth. Here in Chorley we have Ken Morley aka Reg Holdsworth. Use to see him driving round in a pink cadillac, believe he's moved now. Dave Spikey lives in Chorley these days but hails from Bolton.

good morning chicken in this morings paper peter kay is said to be worth £30 million and vernon kay .his parents live in lostock .he sure floats my boat lol x

oh I forgot Bill Wyman AKA Perks Beckenham / Penge border. Joy

Brought up in the same village as Nick Drake.

Robert Palmer grew up near to where I live, his parents still live in the area Sarah, xxx

My town.....Toyah Wilcox

we also have vernon kay sarah thingy(dj)....cox....just remembered bev callard (liz mcdonald) paul nicholls

the concrete cows... lol

david ike is from the island. raving loony! lol!