Bristol

Thomas Chatterton wrote fake medieval poetry using parchment from St Mary Redcliffe and convinced London it was genuine. He was dead at 17. The Romantics made him a martyr.

Brunel's iron ship sat rotting in the Falkland Islands for over a century. In 1970 a salvage operation brought it back across the Atlantic to the dock in Bristol where it had been built.

Banksy started on Bristol walls in the early 1990s. The work was in the city before it was in galleries, before the anonymity became a brand, before the elephant was in the room.

Banksy's first major show was at Severnshed on the harbourside in 2000. The Bristol art world that made it possible had been building since the 1980s in converted factories.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge is Bristol's most recognisable landmark. The gorge below it is also one of the UK's highest-volume suicide sites. The Samaritans' response changed how the country thinks about such places.

Bristol music has a quality that is hard to name but easy to recognise. Slow, heavy, angry, melancholic, political. IDLES sound nothing like Portishead but both sound completely Bristol.

Hartcliffe is six miles from the Arnolfini and the SS Great Britain. It might as well be a different city. The 1992 riots made national news for three days and were then forgotten.

The Bristol Omnibus Company refused to employ Black or Asian drivers or conductors in 1963. Four months later they changed their policy. Here is how that happened.

On the night of 21 April 2011, police raided a squat in Stokes Croft and the street became a riot for two nights running. The Tesco had only been open six weeks.

Concorde was a French-British project and the politics always made that complicated. But the aircraft was substantially built in Bristol, at Filton, and it came home there at the end.