Northampton Flashmob - Thriller 11th July 2009

A huge Michael Jackson Thriller flashmob in the middle of Northampton market square 11th July 2009.

The TV Show goes to... Northampton

Channel 4 interviewed the people in Northampton market square about thier favourite TV programs.

Touch the Tree - Comedy Map of Britain - BBC Two

Bizarre E.R.

It may not be a great thing to promote Northampton, but the new series of Bizarre E.R. was filmed at Northampton General Hospital. It's not for the squeamish, following patients with unbelievable injuries, most of them gruesome. Definitely makes you cringe.

'Bizarre ER is a BBC Three television show that deals with hospital mishaps. It is narrated by Freema Agyeman. It first broadcast on 14 February 2008. Every episode shows a miraculous survival story and strange facts, like the women who fell out of a plane at 35000ft and survived. Series 2 began airing on 21 April 2009 and consists of ten 30 minute episodes.[1]

Following the first five episodes, the show's animal counterpart Bizarre Animal ER, narrated by Kevin Bishop, aired for eight episodes on BBC Three in Bizarre ER's Tuesday slot.[2] Bizarre ER returned after for five more episodes.

Bizarre ER returns for a third series now airing on Mondays from 10 May 2010.[3] The series was filmed at the Northampton General Hospital.'

Watch it on iPlayer here http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sf2rs/Bizarre_ER_Series_3_Episode_1/

Interesting Facts About Northampton

Interesting Northamptonshire facts ( http://www.information-britain.co.uk/countydidyouknow.php?county=14 )



Daventry

• Did you know that the worlds first RADAR station was cited at Daventry

Northampton

• Did you know that Northampton has the biggest market square in England. It is also home of the British Shoe making industry
• Did you know that the first car chase in Britain involving the police occurred in Northampton in 1899

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This website ( http://www.paranormaldatabase.com/hotspots/northampton.php ) has a huge list of all the places in Northampton that are said to be haunted.  It gives you locations and what to look out for if you fancy ghost hunting.

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Northampton is the 21st-largest settlement in England, and the UK's 3rd-largest town without official city status, after Reading and Dudley.

Northampton has two twin towns - Poitiers in France and Marburg in Germany.



Poitiers is the county capital of Vienne in the South West of France. The town has more than 100,000 inhabitants and is expanding into new districts for industry and housing. The area has many ancient buildings and monuments and is only two hours drive away from the Atlantic coast. The town was twinned with Northampton on 20th April 1979.


Marburg is a picturesque town situated in the state of Hessen, in the heart of Germany. It is a university town of approximately 75,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. A friendship has existed between Northampton and Marburg since May 1981 through our joint twin town, Poitiers. The official twinning took place in ceremonies in Germany in October 1990 and in Northampton in May 1992.



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( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton )

Northampton's Famous - Matt Smith

Matt Smith
The 11th Doctor Who

Name - Matt Smith

D.O.B - 28/10/1982

From - Northampton

Profession - Actor

Acting past - 'The Ruby in The Smoke', 'Party Animals', 'Swimming With Sharks', 'Doctor Who'

'Smith was born and raised in Northampton. He planned to be a professional football player, having played for the youth teams of Northampton Town F.C., Nottingham Forest F.C. and Leicester City F.C. After a serious back injury, his drama teacher introduced him to acting by surreptitiously signing him up as the tenth juror in an adaptation of Twelve Angry Men. Although he took part in the play, he declined going to a drama festival that his teacher had signed him up for. His drama teacher persisted, and eventually persuaded him to join the National Youth Theatre in London. After leaving school, Smith studied drama and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. He has cited his favourite band, Radiohead, as an inspiration: "That’s what I want when I go to the theatre, when I’m in a play, is them, and that experience that I get from them."

Smith's first theatre roles came as part of the National Youth Theatre were Thomas Becket in Murder in the Cathedral and Basoon in The Master and Margarita. His role in the latter earned him an agent and his first professional jobs: Fresh Kills and On the Shore of the Wide World. His new professional roles led to him being required to seek an agreement with his university so that he could graduate without attending lectures in his final two terms.

He is a supporter of Blackburn Rovers F.C.'

Links - http://whoismattsmith.com/

Matt Smith on the Johnathon Ross Show

Northampton's Famous - V V Brown

V V Brown

• (Click for VV Brown Video Channel)
• (VV Brown Official Website)

'Vanessa Brown was born in Northampton. She is the eldest of six siblings and is of Caribbean parentage, her mother being Jamaican and father being Portuguese. She attended Overstone Park School near Northampton, which her parents own and work at. Brown learned to play the piano, developed her vocals and took classical and jazz piano lessons at a musical arts school which she attended at the weekend. Growing up, Brown listened to early 20th-century jazz artists like Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. Brown gained four "A" grades at her A levels, studying at Kingsthorpe Upper School (now Kingsthorpe Community College) a year early and was offered places at five top UK universities including Oxford, King's College London, LSE and York. She declined the offers to follow a career in music.'
 

• (VV Brown M&S Advert Interview)