The North/South Divide

Thereal-john:
Anyone south of the Runcorn bridge is a cockney!!!

Oh ■■■■, I’m 500yds away from it…
Ah well “roll out the barrel, my old mans a dust man” blah blah blah

Watford Gap.
Starts to get cloudier,colder & wetter as soon as your’e at the top of the hill. :slight_smile:

Pimpdaddy:
I hate northerners…!!! :smiling_imp:

Obviously a clever, classy ‘southerner’.

Northampton for me or past Warwick services is when I’m in the south for me !

Snudger:
North/South? What about an East/West thing? In the South at least, IMO, cockneydom starts at Swindon.

It all goes a bit ‘ishy’ west of the Medway.

For me it’s defo Gretna… :smiley: :smiley:

Have you noticed that the signs saying south stop well up the country yet you can be on the A1 by Newcastle and the signs still point to the north is this because no one wants to admit to living in the north surely there isn’t much more north after Newcastle

Anything past stansted airport is the north of England :smiley:

C10HOO:
For me trunking to Birmingham most nights I personally class the Thirlwell viaduct as my north/south divide. I think mainly due to being in Carlisle. Just wondering where everyone else feels it is.

If it’s below the thelwall then it’s France as far as I’m concerned, thought you need a passport and injections to cross it!

Ched:

Snudger:
North/South? What about an East/West thing? In the South at least, IMO, cockneydom starts at Swindon. Take Mark Lamarr. Well, mockneydom at least. I was quite shocked to read in a old Shell guide to the UK, that Bristol was in the chapter “The Midlands”, though I swear I have detected in the indigenous Bristolian some Brummie influences, e.g. I have heard browery for brewery.

'Ave you 'eard how they speaks in Swindonville■■? :open_mouth: It don’t be no cockerknee lingo and also you don’t wants to be no stranger person round those parts after the moon rises :laughing:

Aaaarooooo!

As a native of Swindoncestershire i have to admit you have a point there !!
Mind you the Pompey accent sounds mockerney to me . . depends what council estate you were brought up on i suppose.
If only everybody “talked proper like i does” :laughing: :laughing:

Anywhere outside glasgow city limits then you’re all chookters as far as im concerned :grimacing:

As far as I’m concerned, anywhere past Guildford is in the north to me :laughing:

Thats an easy one…Helston!!!

I used to live out on the Lizard (the most southern point in mainland UK. Helston is the first town at the top of the peninsular.)

dew:

C10HOO:
For me trunking to Birmingham most nights I personally class the Thirlwell viaduct as my north/south divide. I think mainly due to being in Carlisle. Just wondering where everyone else feels it is.

If it’s below the thelwall then it’s France as far as I’m concerned, thought you need a passport and injections to cross it!

You need injections to visit most UK city centres dew.

Always remember a certain page from this book.

If we were to truely divide the country up. Liverpool and Manchester would be with Birmingham in the midlands. The north west would only contain the Isle of Man and the true north is mainly ■■■■■■■ and Northumbria.

There’s something wrong with that map - the (non) Isle of Wight.

That map is based on the centre of the whole of Britain when balancing a cardboard cut out of it on a pin. We had to do that at school for some reason. The centre of the land mass is elsewhere based on some mathematical locus ■■■■ I learned at college and never used. :grimacing:

Liverpool might be the centre of many things, but it’s not the centre of the UK.

Typical scousers ‘‘stealing’’ the glory on the map!

merc0447:
Anywhere outside glasgow city limits then you’re all chookters as far as im concerned :grimacing:

Anything north of Perth.

I don’t feel properly ‘North’ until I pass Sheffield or Macclesfield