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Up That North, and why does it sound that way?
Little Richardjohn Started conversation Apr 4, 2007
I can't be the first to notice how place names in a corner of North West England seem to confirm the stereotype of the area. That is, of dark Satanic mills, pollution, utilitarian manufactories, Dickens' "Heads of elephants in a state of melancholy madness" and, well, grimness...
The names positively rattle with ironmongery and incineration.
BLACKpool
BOLTon
BURNley
BURY
PRESton
ASHton
BLACK BURN
Even
BOOTle
OLD HAM
and
WIGan
hardly dance with the skylarks above a field of ripening corn.
So what is it?
It would be nice to think that the engineering bolt was actually named after Thomas Bolton, and so the town bearing his name is only incedentally industrial. But what of the rest?
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