If there were nicknames here for towns and cities like they have in America

[SteveB]

Granite city
Auld Reekie
The smoke

 

[Gelan]

Granite city
Auld Reekie
The smoke

The last one is now not relevant.

 

[foggyballa]

Granite city
Auld Reekie
The smoke

Steel City for Sheffield? Or am I making it up that I’d heard that?

 

[SteveB]

The last one is now not relevant.

Except everyone still calls it that

 

[Shandy drinker]

The Big Pink Slice
Ol' Cuthberts
Detroit

Detroit - Motown

Boro: city of 2 heeds
Newcastle: city of chop ya heeds

Noocazzleneehead

 

[JAZZMANB]

What could the likes of Sunderland, Durham and Newcastle etc be nicknamed?

Tornado for us
It's better the further away from the centre you go
Pamela Anderson for Durham
It was hot centuries ago
Thatchers fanny for Boro
No one dares goes there
Goliaths wart for Newcastle
Big ,quite impressive but just full of stinky smelly stuff

 

[Gelan]

Except everyone still calls it that

I judge on today, people included

 

[Harry Gates]

Northampton would be a shoo-in for a nickname

 

[CPLforever]

I was there mate, it was disgusting, but I've also lived up north and had to breathe some foul air at times. Steam trains were horrendous like, used to put my hand over my mouth as the train came into the station.

How old are you? 104 years old, remembering smog and steam trains did you meet up with the artful dodger down there

 

[Nicky Nacky Noo]

Newcastle - The Horse Puncher Town

 

[Barnsley]

Three in Yorkshire:
Wakey
Donny
Scarbados

Cas Vegas.

 

[Roker Mackem]

Newcastle.. Little Ryiadh

 

[tynevalleyblackcat]

Northampton would be a shoo-in for a nickname

Cobblers

 

[Football Dinosaur]

Brighton would be city of brotherly love

 

[The soap powder]

The city of the great unwashed -Newcastle

 

[Ned Land]

Brighton would be city of brotherly love

We have our very own Philadelphia!

 

[42]

Why is London called the smoke? Greenest city in the world and doesn't have the heavy industry of other cities.

You might want to check out the latest centre for cities report. London has the worst air quality in the country. Sunderland & Newcastle have joint best in England.

 

[Harry Gates]

Cobblers

A fine feat of humour.

 

[Fat White Duck]

Granite city
Auld Reekie
The smoke

what's this one?

 

[Harry Gates]

what's this one?

Anne Widdecombe.

Edinburgh, same as London, auld smokey