Barrow-in-Furness
When it was in Lancashire.

42 years ago on Tuesday.

Which means I'm 42 on Tuesday.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:20, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

ooh
my birthday is on thursday, close!

my dad was born in tod, when it was still in yorkshire (the residents would say it still is). when he gets really fed up with our jibes about red roses, he will actually dig out his birth certificate to prove that it says yorkshire. i suspect tippex.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:26, Reply)

what's wrong with red roses?

(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:28, Reply)

(i'm just being tongue in cheek)
as flowers, they are my favourites.

but as the symbol of lancashire, when one is from yorkshire... no no no.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:32, Reply)

Red roses are the best roses

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:33, Reply)

red white
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:34, Reply)

I have to renew my membership at Headingley tomorrow
It sickens me but it's the only way I can get to see good cricket.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:37, Reply)

so at what point of living there
does the allegiance shift from red to white??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:38, Reply)

It doesn't - ever.
I've conceded above that Leeds is the best City in the UK, but I'm still Lancashire and will clutch the thorny stem of the Red Red rose to my breast until I'm too old to clutch it any more.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:47, Reply)

but secretly
deep deep down, you're a white rose man at heart by now, surely!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:57, Reply)

so is lancashire like, part of yorkshire or something?

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:43, Reply)

i could go along with this

( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:45, Reply)

it is all "the north" right?
is there any way of telling the difference between yorkshire and lancashire?
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:47, Reply)

the accent is different
and the location is different!

i say this. i haven't lived there since i was born there, been in cheshire or london all my life, but meh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:51, Reply)

they are both in the north though right?
basically it is an east and a west north? why not call it east and west yorkshire or something?
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:52, Reply)

see, technically
the whole of the uk is really just an extension of yorkshire.

so sitting here in kensington, i am in south east yorkshire.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:55, Reply)

I've put in sixteen years here
Three years at Leeds University makes nineteen in total.

Your stint in Yorkshire is?
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:59, Reply)

erm...
well. about 7 days, as i was in hospital for a week after being born. BUT all my family on both sides for many generations are from there...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 22:00, Reply)

so you're not particularly from yorkshire then

( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 22:04, Reply)

depends how you are judging it
by years spent living there? no
by houses owned there? no
by jobs there? no...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 22:07, Reply)

i once spent a few days in milan,
i might claim to be italian.
( Sir Sand GOBLIN ^popular page dis, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 22:09, Reply)

Oh very good.
If I trace my family history back far enough I'm probably a Viking.

You're no more Yorkshire than me.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 22:06, Reply)

brainwashing
i've grown up being yorkshire brainwashed!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 22:07, Reply)

Lancashire feels good
Yorkshire feels like you'd want to be somewhere else. Like Lancashire, possibly.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:54, Reply)

LIES online!!!

( rachelswipe with a fork, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 21:55, Reply)