What a great present for Lancashire Day

[Bearman]

Well, those two Lancashire teams certainly gave us all a great Lancashire Day present on 27 November.

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[barnyia]

If you mean the final, I thought it was a greater Manchester v merseyside derby?

[Bearman]

1 hour ago, barnyia said:

If you mean the final, I thought it was a greater Manchester v merseyside derby?

Just goes show you were wrong then.

http://www.forl.co.uk

[Harry Stottle]

1 hour ago, barnyia said:

If you mean the final, I thought it was a greater Manchester v merseyside derby?

 Nope it will be like saying after the 31st December that Britain is in Europe, it won't be, but it is and always will be, just like both Wigan and St Helens will always be in Lancashire.

[Bearman]

Just now, Harry Stottle said:

 Nope it will be like saying after the 31st December that Britain is in Europe, it won't be, but it is and always will be, just like both Wigan and St Helens will always be in Lancashire.

Correct.

[Harry Stottle]

1 minute ago, Bearman said:

Just goes show you were wrong then.

http://www.forl.co.uk

Exactly, only the other day on another thread, I said how I still use my adresss as Leigh, Lancashire.

[barnyia]

Really i thought wigan was in greater Manchester, that lancashire accent in st helens makes it obvious i was wrong

[Eddie]

On 28/11/2020 at 12:37, Harry Stottle said:

 Nope it will be like saying after the 31st December that Britain is in Europe, it won't be, but it is and always will be, just like both Wigan and St Helens will always be in Lancashire.

I think naming the metropolitan counties Merseyside and GM was a mistake, as a generation later anyone under the age of 50 barely knows they were ever in Lancs. If (like Yorkshire) they’d been named West Lancashire and South Lancashire (for example) it would have kept the historic identity going. 

[Griff]

Give us Saddleworth back.  That's what I say.

[thunder pete]

Don't get me started about Barrer being in Cumbria...

[Padge]

Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Wakefield et al are NOT in Yorkshire.

[redjonn]

On 28/11/2020 at 12:37, Bearman said:

Just goes show you were wrong then.

http://www.forl.co.uk

that was nice bit of information to read - is it true.

I'm a proud Lancashire person, born in Liverpool when merseyside didn't exist as a county/admin district.

Will never desist from saying I'm a Lancashire lad... mind you I might still argue whether Preston or Liverpool are the "capitals"... chuckle.

Plus I lived in Huyton in younger years when Prescot spoke with a different tongue to us bussed out of the Slums Liverpudlians - and it was less than a mile away.

[Bearman]

2 minutes ago, redjonn said:

that was nice bit of information to read - is it true.

I'm a proud Lancashire person, born in Liverpool when merseyside didn't exist as a county/admin district.

Will never desist from saying I'm a Lancashire lad... mind you I might still argue whether Preston or Liverpool are the "capitals"... chuckle.

Plus I lived in Huyton in younger years when Prescot spoke with a different tongue to us bussed out of the Slums Liverpudlians - and it was less than a mile away.

Its true 

[Ramon Rojo]

Greater Manchester has always been ridiculous as a generic catchment title.

The majority of Lancastrian towns forced into this ridiculous bureaucratic administration block have never had much in common with Manchester. 

Saying that I now live in Cornwall and most the locals here reckon they've never been part of England

[Griff]

10 hours ago, Celt said:

How incredibly parochial of you. 

Parochial ?  That would be a parish, not a county.