depends which paper you read

If the Sun or Star or Sport is your rag then yes.

Steven Fry is probably more internationaly recognisable due to the amount of films he's cameo'd in, and Admiral Lord Nelson was a fairly important fellow.

Posted By: Canaria_Mediocris on March 17th 2006 at 10:36:07

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so it seems the four most famous people connected with norfolk are (General Chat) - bellamys_knee, Mar 17, 10:21:49
- Where's Admiral NELSON ? (n/m) (General Chat) - oh arr, Mar 18, 00:48:58
  - Where's Thomas Paine? (n/m) (General Chat) - oh arr, Mar 18, 00:49:25
    - Where's Edith Cavell? (n/m) (General Chat) - oh arr, Mar 18, 00:49:53
      - Where's Coke of Holkham Hall & four field rotation etc. ? (n/m) (General Chat) - oh arr, Mar 18, 00:50:49
        
        Where's Sir Robert Walpole? Prime Minister 1721-1742 (General Chat) - oh arr, Mar 18, 01:02:21
- Princess Diana went to school in King's Lynn (n/m) (General Chat) - Chief Bushkisser, Mar 17, 11:12:55
  - Riddlesworth. (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 11:14:17
    - and Silfield School in Lynn (General Chat) - Chief Bushkisser, Mar 17, 11:20:06
      - Well, I stand corrected. (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 11:20:38
    - also Kings Lynn (General Chat) - camcan, Mar 17, 11:18:57
- I'd have thought Robert Walpole deserved a fair shout at it too. (n/m) (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 10:38:29
  - And Edith Cavell (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:41:25
    - And Anna Sewell. (n/m) (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 10:42:10
      - Who? Did she start Sewells the Baker in Unthank Road? How about Elizabeth Fry? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:44:46
        
        Black Beauty, innit. (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 10:47:37
        
        Barclays on Bank Plain was Gurneys, then taken over by Barclays... (General Chat) - Declan, Mar 17, 13:58:39
        
        Well, well, great rivia fact of the day, TVM. And I was thinking the same re Barclays (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:51:38
        
        No idea who he is...... (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 10:55:35
        
        Cotman is the most famous product of Crome's School! Coke and Townsend - excellent call (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:58:34
        
        She made camp... (General Chat) - Jim Nasium, Mar 17, 11:02:01
        
        I've made camp all over the UK. (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 11:05:04
        
        Buried in Quidenham if you choose to believe the tale...... (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 11:00:36
        
        A riveting rivia fact indeed. (n/m) (General Chat) - Jim Nasium, Mar 17, 10:54:35
        
        I'm going on holiday to the Italian Rivia. Does Anne Boleyn count as Norfolk? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:55:41
        
        Doubt it... (General Chat) - Jim Nasium, Mar 17, 10:58:17
        
        Didn't she write Black Beauty? (n/m) (General Chat) - Jim Nasium, Mar 17, 10:47:35
- depends which paper you read (General Chat) - Canaria_Mediocris, Mar 17, 10:36:07
- That's because (General Chat) - Inbred Yokel, Mar 17, 10:33:04
  - dont judge us all by you own low binner standards (n/m) (General Chat) - bellamys_knee, Mar 17, 10:39:17
  - Fact source? (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 10:35:41
    - plausible but perhaps misleading? (General Chat) - CWC, Mar 17, 10:50:52
  - Oh, they'll bite at that, no trouble. Good shot. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 17, 10:34:02
    - There's only one Tony Martin... (General Chat) - Duke McBushy, Mar 17, 10:35:23
    - What's your firewall trouble AB? I thought you WERE the firewall? (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:35:00
      - ... (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 17, 10:38:54
        
        Coo-err (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:42:00
    - thanks (n/m) (General Chat) - Inbred Yokel, Mar 17, 10:34:59
- at least the Singing Postman's dead! (n/m) (General Chat) - mr carra, Mar 17, 10:27:09
  - Wasn't he from Suffolk anyway? (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Mar 17, 10:31:06
    - ... should have been drowned in a vat of Ovaltine .... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 17, 10:32:10
      - Correct to both the above (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 17, 10:35:23
- Pat Butcher and her stinking gym kit live in a place beginning with M on the coast... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Mar 17, 10:26:25
  - really? is it mundesley? (n/m) (General Chat) - bellamys_knee, Mar 17, 10:27:20
    - I used to go there for the odd hol, when I was a wee-un.. (n/m) (General Chat) - ArchBishop Crazypaws, Mar 17, 10:31:41
    - Yep, that's the place... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Mar 17, 10:30:45
      - its auite worrying how you knew that... do you read heat or summin? (n/m) (General Chat) - bellamys_knee, Mar 17, 10:34:29
        
        Nope... (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Mar 17, 10:39:22
- ok i need to re word this (General Chat) - bellamys_knee, Mar 17, 10:25:43
- Nigel Worthington lives in Norfolk (n/m) (General Chat) - Furry Nuttykins, Mar 17, 10:25:35
- Martin shaw lives in Norfolk (General Chat) - Duck, Mar 17, 10:24:41
  - as does John Major... (n/m) (General Chat) - Beth Nal Green, Mar 17, 10:25:53
- Lord Horatio Nelson? (n/m) (General Chat) - Beth Nal Green, Mar 17, 10:23:31
  - Famous but not famous because he comes from Norfolk... (General Chat) - Brandonio, Mar 17, 10:33:56
- Stephen Fry (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Mar 17, 10:23:30
- Stephen Fry... (n/m) (General Chat) - Duke McBushy, Mar 17, 10:23:04
  - Martin Brundle (General Chat) - Chief Bushkisser, Mar 17, 10:56:27
    - Came second by the closest ever margin though. (n/m) (General Chat) - BeverlyHills0201, Mar 17, 11:01:18
  - Well done (n/m) (General Chat) - Fierce Panda, Mar 17, 10:23:51
    - Thanks. (n/m) (General Chat) - Duke McBushy, Mar 17, 10:26:11

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