Lancashire Day 27 November 2018

[Cyril Haearn]

I do love Lancashire, especially the corner by Coniston, and Bowland is great for cycling
I really want to visit Blackpool to ride a the trams and go up the tower (never been there)

Not sure how big it is now mind, after *Greater Manchester* and *Merseyside* declared UDI, or do they still belong to Lancashire?

Why do you love Lancashire?

[NUKe]

I don't I am from Yorkshire

[djnotts]

Born there - do for me! Not much left of Trafford Park, although because we lived in a flat the building remains. What was a sweet shop (handy when rationing!) on the ground floor beneath us is now .....a Greggs! I really must go and buy something there one day...

[Flinders]

I love Pendle. The hill, the area, and the people. But it is my point of origin, so I suppose I would, wouldn't I?
(I never knew there was a Lancashire Day though.)

[Tangled Metal]

No Avon day then? It doesn't exist as a county now right?

Guess I'll have to enjoy my adopted Lancashire. Well it's really the only county I know as home. Moved up at 3 but only remember a few things about then. Our last pet rabbit escaping down the road and the drive up to Lancashire.

Reminds me about the best thing in Yorkshire, the road to Lancashire!

What's good about Lancashire? Nothing especially unless you live in my neck of the woods. North Lancashire is the best. Too crowded in South, West and East Lancashire. I've lived in them all. North's best.

My mum and gran are Lancastrian born and bred. That's Liverpool, Lancashire not Liverpool, Merseyside. AFAIK it's still officially part of the county palatine of Lancashire. Test, if the lord lieutenant of Lancashire escorts the queen in Liverpool then is Lancashire. At least that's what I was once told.

Anyone explore the corner of Lancashire that you can drive in and out of the county down the same road? There's an area in the north east that's Cumbria, north Yorkshire and Lancashire all twisted up. Kind of head north of Cumbria corner and you're back in Lancashire. Or so it seems.

[Flinders]

What is now the south part of Cumbria used to be in Lancashire.....

[Cyril Haearn]

What is now the south part of Cumbria used to be in Lancashire.....

That was surely not the last border change

I read an interesting suggestion: Lancashire and Yorkshire should combine

TNP the northern poorhouse would be unbeatable then

[Tangled Metal]

Don't mix us northerners with Manchester and leeds. That's where rich folk live (and Cheshire too). Lancaster isn't getting the HS2, 3, 4 or any HS number anytime soon. Also Lancashire 's biggest airport is likely to be blackpool!

It's a nice place to live but boy the parts of the northern powerhouse outside of those two cities really need help to catch up I think. Thank goodness for European money. Oh! Hmmm!

Goodbye Osborne with your sham northern powerhouse con! Carry on with your London cronies. Like always and always with a tory government. And new labour too. I doubt London centred Corbynistas will make any difference there. Look at the power. Big Len (London based now right? Corbyn (London mp for how long). Dianne Abbott (London mp again). The black shadow, sorry shadow chancellor (is he London I really don't one where the coffin he springs from is located).

Meanwhile I've been working for a long time solidly now. I'm lucky and that luck means I enjoy the best county in England or the best part of it at least.

[Cyril Haearn]

Manchester is indeed hardly in the north, nearer the middle on the map

During the Copeland byelection that area was described as the real northwest %-)

If I were getting a powerhouse job I would rather live in Workington or Barnard Castle than Milton Keynes

[Tangled Metal]

Dunsop Bridge mate. Geographical centre of UK apparently. Anything south of that is southern. That includes Manchester. Unless you want to forget about Scotland. Thousands wish that could happen.

[Sweep]

Another lancastrian checking in, didn't realise there were that many others on here.

Yes Pendle is wonderful. I love the way it rises up behind Clitheroe like a great basking whale. Can't be many other hills like it in the country, or any.

[Cyril Haearn]

Today is Lancashire Day!

How are you celebrating?

[ncutler]

How are you celebrating?

Re-proofing my Barbour.

[reohn2]

.......Why do you love Lancashire?

Because Wigan is in it
I reckon there's no nicer place to be than the best parts.Lancashire,and Yorkshire FTM.
As for Blackpool I couldn't care less if it fell into the sea,a horrible place YUK! Go ten miles inland and Lancashire is beautiful

[thirdcrank]

If they want to do it right, they need somebody like Sir Gary Verity, head honcho at Welcome To Yorkshire. I thought Yorkshire Day had originated in the last couple of years but I see from wiki that it began as a protest against local govt., reorganisation in 1974. Anyway, it's on 1 August, I believe, which makes it a bit easier to celebrate outside. I've not much time for Wars of the Roses / dour Yorkshiremen etc., but this is different, bringing in visitors and their cash. There are places, especially in more rural areas, where there are yellow bikes permanently hanging from the walls of shops and even some on houses. Even somebody grumpy like I am has to admit that the now widespread display of the Yorkshire flag gives things a communal identity.

There have been calculations of how much money the TdeF brought to the area in comparison with the outlay. I've no idea what they (we?) pay Sir Gary, but he brings in a lot more. Perhaps they'll promote him to the peerage. Unfortunately, the Duchy of York is already taken.