Where does the North stop being the North?

Milltown1882 · Post by **Milltown1882** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:39 am

Mrs is from Birmingham and refuses to accept Stoke as south/on the way to the Midlands. Definitely Stoke.

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:58 am

RMutt wrote:Stuart Maconie has written a book about it. Pies and Prejudice. It’s an entertaining read.

Ordered this on this recommendation.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:26 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:Ordered this on this recommendation.

Same! 2 quid off ebay

LoveCurryPies · Post by **LoveCurryPies** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:28 pm

RMutt wrote:Stuart Maconie has written a book about it. Pies and Prejudice. It’s an entertaining read.

Sadly I was totally disappointed with 'Pies and Prejudice'. Thought he probably knocked it up on a couple of train journeys.

SalisburyClaret · Post by **SalisburyClaret** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:44 pm

All relative - to a claret-supporting Geordie, Burnley would be in the Midlands

ijkay · Post by **ijkay** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:04 pm

just south of the equator

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:17 pm

ijkay wrote:just south of the equator

I would argue that just ON The equator is more accurate...

vancouverclaret · Post by **vancouverclaret** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:22 pm

I lived in Cheshire and I don't consider myself a southerner. I'd say anywhere past Birmingham is south.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:39 pm

For me the Midlands are a sort of No Mans Land, where you’re neither one nor the other. It’s much preferable to be Northern or Southern so you can feel part of the great debate. The Midlands are just odd.

ontario claret · Post by **ontario claret** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:25 pm

Speaking of gravy on chips, here in Canada we put vinegar on them. Where did that come from? Americans don't do it.

TonbridgeClaret · Post by **TonbridgeClaret** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:06 pm

Living in Kent we class anyone north of the Thames as a northerner.

ColonelCool · Post by **ColonelCool** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:09 pm

ontario claret wrote:Speaking of gravy on chips, here in Canada we put vinegar on them. Where did that come from? Americans don't do it.

Vinegar on gravy is just daft.

ColonelCool · Post by **ColonelCool** » Mon Apr 09, 2018 9:09 pm

TonbridgeClaret wrote:Living in Kent we class anyone north of the Thames as a northerner.

Or an absolute Kent.

ijkay · Post by **ijkay** » Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:09 am

cricketfieldclarets wrote:I would argue that just ON The equator is more accurate...

equator neither north or south suppose u could argue that anything above south pole is north

ontario claret · Post by **ontario claret** » Tue Apr 10, 2018 10:04 pm

No, ColonelCool, it's a choice. Either gravy or white or malt vinegar.

ontario claret · Post by **ontario claret** » Tue Apr 10, 2018 11:04 pm

And welcome aboard vancouverclaret. (Too bad a about the Sedins.)

cricketfieldclarets · Post by **cricketfieldclarets** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 12:03 am

ClaretEngineer wrote:Same! 2 quid off ebay

Listened to most of ot today. Very entetraining in parts. Some of it not so. But can relate to a lot of it.

Think he brings up a lot of unnecesary stuff though.

AndrewJB · Post by **AndrewJB** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:07 am

Watford Gap Services.

claretnproud · Post by **claretnproud** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 8:44 am

it becomes the south at the bit where they get out of the bath to have a slash.

hampsteadclaret · Post by **hampsteadclaret** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 9:41 am

Over the last 30+ years I have done more North/South journeys than I care to remember.

This isn't scientific at all but I always used to look forward to arriving 'in the North'...I felt that I was home.

- this always occurred for me when I had gone past Stoke on the M6...the North Cheshire/South Manchester divide is an important one - I would say hit Knutsford, and then draw a line eastwards to Worksop and then to the coast.

That is where the North starts for me.

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