Notoriety

As a born and bred Hullensian I'd just like to say that we don't 'ave much sner but it siles down with rain loads.

Vampirequeen - I lived in Hull for many years, worked with children with reading problems. Among other things they'd never heard of "h"!
And the teachers were nunty.

Eeh by gum, I didn't know that whenim.
I do hope your DH wasn't 'smirking'!
Like most of Broadchurch being filmed in Clevedon.

I munna tell the joke about the road from Yorkshire to Lancashire (or vice versa) which DH enjoys so much!

Nunty is a new one on me!

Clevedon and Portishead where I live.

All this Yorkshire has put me in mind of Dickon in The Secret Garden! I lived there for a while....father stationed at Dishforth and I went to Ripon Girls' High !

'Smirking Area' that was it! (Sorry, the Victoria Wood sketch just came back into my head just then...)

I was born, bred and educated in the Hull area and have enjoyed reading this thread. Let's hear it for 'Ull! It is a very 'different' place full of contrasts and with its own culture. We are looking forward to the Year of Culture and hope to spend lots of time there when it happens.
We live in Cornwall now and will be visiting Clevedon next Monday/Tuesday so I will look out for Broadchurch sites (I thought it was filmed in Dorset. Which bits are Clevedon?)

I think there's a link on the Broadchurch thread.

Oh, found it again:
www.westbay.co.uk/broadchurch/locations.php

Thanks Rose that makes interesting reading.

Reviving an old thread that I started.

Today I was checking the exact location of the Garrick Theatre on Charing Cross Road in an attempt to dodge as much of the rain as possible.

Following a link on the theatre's website I'm led to believe that the area is 'notorious' for large theatres and even larger productions.

I know that language develops but surely notorious still means being famous for something bad, e.g. many brothels or pickpockets not theatres?

Garrick

I agree with you, Riverwalk, so was a tad put out to find this definition on dictionary.com:

2 publicly or generally known, as for a particular trait:
a newspaper that is notorious for its sensationalism.
Synonyms: notable, renowned, celebrated, prominent, conspicuous, famous, widely known.