Unique things about your town/city..

[Lukeee]

That is a hard one but I'll give it a go

I think these are right but they might be wrong, if they are let me know.

I live in Leeds so....

-The first Marks & Spencer store is in Leeds (I don't know if Americans will understand this one, I think they are only in the UK)

-The first Harvey Nichols store outside of London is in Leeds.

-Leeds City Centre has/had more CCTV cameras than anywhere else in Europe? (I'm not too sure about this one but I heard it somewhere)

-Over 33% of the UK's internet traffic passes through Leeds - I don't know how this one is possible but it says so on Wikipedia so it must be true.

 

[boredman321]

The town NExt time mine has the smallest restaurant ... it only seats 4 people.

 

[unloadonme]

The cathedral is called York Minster and it's the largest gothic cathedral north of the Alps.

 

[BAMA32]

We have a statue monument to an insect pest.

 

[unloadonme]

York was founded by the Romans in 71 AD.

 

[dynk]

Lowell was the home for Jack Kerouac, Ed McMahon, Bette Davis, and several others

 

[David DeVour]

Detroit had the first stretch of concrete highway in the world.

 

[unloadonme]

York is the home of the National Railway Museum

http://www.nrm.org.uk/home/home.asp

 

[David DeVour]

Detroit supplied an estimated 75% of liquor during Prohibition to the US. It was smuggled across the river from Canada.

 

[maxpowr9]

My hometown's name is the college name in the movie "Flubber". Walt Disney used to frequent my town and described it as an "All-American Town". We also created the music program in public schools in the US.

 

[David DeVour]

Detroit has the largest island park within a city in the USA. It has 987 acres and was developed by the same guy who designed Central Park. Belle Isle Park has a 9 hole golf course, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, picnic shelters, basketball courts, baseball fields, beaches, and a 150 acre protected wooded area. It is home to a wide variety of small birds, animals, and European fallow deer. It used to have canoeing, a zoo, aquarium, and an atrium.

 

[dynk]

we have a large 3-day folk festival every July