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A friend comes from Ellesmere Port (well, Little Sutton) and its usually the first thing she tells people once she's told them where she's from

I live in Little Sutton as well and its not something I have heard, and even if I had, I don't think I would brag about it.

There are other claims to infamy that Ellesmere Port can make but I don't think teenage pregnancies is one of them.

Donald

Maybe its just my friend. I'll ask her about it. Nice coincidence though, that you both come from Ellesmere Port but really Little Sutton

Thatcher, I blame Thatcher.


Post codes are no clue anyway, take this town, 'WAnn' Warrington (Cheshire) and 'Lnn' Liverpool (Merseyside). Yet the address of Lancashire with no post code works just fine.


Heard of Peter Kay, from Bolton? Does he sound like Oais? Yet Greater Manchester claims them both. Non of these made-up counties took the 'character' of the town into consideration... Wigan in with Manchester?


Sausages! Still Cumberland sausages, not Cumbria sausage, or have they been made EU illegal yet for a) being British, b) having taste b) not exactly matching the name of the region they come from c) Not being French or German?


and \/ to them!

All these places mean nothing to me, other than places with DX adresses. Northumberland once extended all the way to the way to the river Humber but now Humberside, Cleveland, County Durham and Tyne & Wear block the way. So I presume Cumberland is similar story!!!

Humberside definitely no longer exists.

It is kept only as a vague memory by the police and the boy scout movement.

No jokes comparing the two please.

B

County Durham has been around since the Middle Ages so its been blocking the way almost as long as Northumberland has existed

Isn't Cumbria the old name for Wales..............

No, thats Cambria.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0810003.html

Donald

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...and Scotland was Caledonia!!!

Caladonia was the name given to Scotland by the Roamans when it was populated by the Picts.

http://halfmoon.tripod.com/pict3.html

Donald

and back in Anglo-Saxon times before the Danes arrived Northumberland used to include much of Scotland, certainly Lothian and the Borders

Besides lovely sausages; Cumbrian pie - and don't they do their own particular type of wrestling? (Keep it clean)

Cumberland Wrestling. It's similar in style to Japanese Sumo.

http://millennium.fortunecity.com/greendale/500/Scot/gmrules.html

http://www.cumbria.uk.com/cumbria/fun/gurner.htm

That reminds me, searching meet-up photos, not as straight forward as one would expect.

Ah yes, forgot about the noble art of gurning.

Ah, yes:

"Mummy and Daddy, what did you do for fun before TV was invented?"

"Well, darling, we gathered round the piano, gurned a bit then finished of with a Cumbrian wrestling match!"

. . . Those were the days my friends

Eee try tellin that t'youngsters t'day.............

That's another question, what accent do they speak over there is it geordie or West country or what???