Erm...no.
Let's see....(dredging muddy depths of memory of glossopian history)
It once had the largest cotton mill in the whole of europe. It's pretty close to where they film Last of the Summer Wine. It was on the long-gone rail route between manchester and sheffield via the Woodhead Pass. It's at the foot of the Snake Pass. It's the Gateway to The Peak District. Erm...struggling now. It had a very poisonous large industrial chimney. People get murdered there a lot - to show what I mean, here is a true conversation with my mother last week:
"Ooh, we had a murder while I was on holiday, and i missed it! It was...well i don't think you know him. (BTW, any fans of Peter Kay, his stand-up basically is an exact copy of my family; mother only talks about who died, and how I DO know them...)
Anyway, he was in his seventies! At a party. Soemone hit him. And now they're in court charged with murder. It's a shame because the one who was murdered was a nice man. Of course, he'd done time himself before."
Me, in bored and unsurprised tone: "Really?"
"Yes...he murdered someone, you know."
I kid you not.
Glossop School Band were quite well known for a while in the seventies and eighties. And they had a team on Cheggers Plays Pop.
The year before last there was apparetnly some cheesy TV p[rogramme trying to find Britain's Sexiest Fireman (and others), and ultimately, Britains's Sexiest Man. An old classmate of mine won.
Andy Crane lives there; his daughter's in my niece's class at school.
What else has famously happened in Glossop?
Um... Nope, mind is now completely blank.
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