My Hometown

Anyone that knows me knows that im English but now reside in the States. Whilst growing up in a small mining town of Hucknall, Nottingham I don't think I ever really appreciated my surroundings and the large amount of history that surrounded me. Like most people I had the opinion that my home town was boring and yearned for exotic adventures to far away places. Where I know that I am very lucky to have been able to travel and visit and live in many different countries, I cannot help often feeling homesick even after the many years that I have left home. Whilst Googling my home town the other day I was surprised to find something very interesting that I was able to post on my website, if your interested in seeing feel free to check it out: http://www.britishmovieclassics.com/movieblog.php

Besides this information I never really appreciated that the main church that is on our market square and that I passed by almost everyday and never gave a second glance is over 600 years old I was lucky enough to be married in it though or that Lord Byron, who I did visit his ancestral home, Newstead Abbey many times, but I never appreciated the history of having that person probably walk or ride along the same routes that I did, his heart is buried under the floor of the alter in the church. I worked for a couple who lived in the house that Eric Coates, the famous composer who is responsible for writing the theme tune for the movie Dam Busters. At the time when they would tell me that they lived in his house I kind of thought so what. The bare knuckled fighter Ben Caunt was also a local celebrity, I believe his grave stone is situated in the local church, St Mary Magdalene Church.

Whats the point in all this? Nothing really, but I guess im trying to get across that sometimes we spend so much time looking over the fence at the grass on the other side, that we never truly appreciate what we have around us. I love living in the States and I love alot of the history, but I cant help but kick myself in the butt when I think of the British long history and how I never appreciated it because it was always there, in the states there are historical buildings and stories but nothing that dates back as far as the British Empire.

So its clear that todays lessons is to appreciate what you have, you may think your hometown is boring, but I bet if you did some digging, you just might find something that surprises you.