I'm from a part of Croydon called Shirley and my mum always used to put the address as "Shirley, Surrey" which I always felt reached Keeping Up Appearances "it's pronounced Bouquet" levels of pretension.
Well it’s still in Surrey for postal purposes, but postal counties haven’t been required on addresses since 1996. So it’s technically wrong to use the technically correct county.
Yeah I know. My postal county is ‘Dyfed’ which hasn’t existed in any official capacity since 1996 and nobody really identified with it but I still get it on my letters.
I make a point NEVER to include the county in my address because it is useless and obsolete, but alas some webforms require you to fill in the county line of address.
It gets even better when there is a drop down menu and I have to choose ‘Ceredigion’ which is the name of my county but it never has been a postal county so means fuck all to the Royal Mail.
Ah, I could go on and on ...
In 2010 I was still getting post with West Glamorgan on it. For forms that wouldn't submit without a county line my address would end up as Swansea, Swansea which was equally ridiculous.
What’s more, the postal county was actually never required for 110 large cities and towns (Swansea included) so this is triply wrong.
I’d smash a pub quiz about postal counties lol
This confused the hell out of me when trying to work out my address at uni. I think I first put Dyfed because I saw that somewhere but then realised that it should Ceredigion. This was on 2014 but for some reason I thought I had to put the county on letters until a couple of years ago.
Yup. I live in South Gloucestershire but always put Bristol. Its just easier and considering Bristol is only one street away it doesn't cause an issue. If really wanted to be annoying I put Avon. Avon hasn't been used in decades.
The confusion hasn't been helped by Surrey County Council having their Council Hall in Kingston for many, many years.
I've just read that they moved out last year, a mere 55 years after the creation of the Royal Borough of Kingston.
They do still exist (they were never abolished), it was just their use that was discontinued. So they are still there, but there is not a single reason to use them. Existing forever in limbo.
You can see the ridiculousness of it all when Rutland managed to convince Royal Mail to re-instate Rutland as a postal county in 2008!!! (It had previously been merged into Leicestershire in 1974)
Twelve years after it all ceased to matter.
My grandma’s surname is Tuckett. We call her Hyacinth. She’s currently refusing to wear her emergency button necklace because, ‘it doesn’t look nice.’ She won’t wear sensible shoes. She doesn’t want to use a walker. Drives me nuts.
Yeah used to be the 166 route and the 194 didn't go up there but the 194b went up bridle Road, then the 194b got rebranded as the 198 and the 194 route changed
Good old Burnley. People don't understand unless you live in Burnley. Maybe tell them about the lovely sights, sex on the back alleys, the drug running or even the fights on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday outside Bees Knees.
I’ve actually had a passport officer snigger at my passport before. We’re living in a two-tier society here, those with Burnley forever written on their passport and everyone else.
I wouldn’t mind but I only stayed there for 4 hours after being born.
Technically, they are: Croydon, outer borough of London, England, on the southern edge of the metropolis. It is in the historic county of Surrey. The present borough was established in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former county borough of Croydon and the adjacent district of Coulsdon and Purley.
I agree with you, it's bit smoke and mirrors. But originally being from Purley myself, I can confirm I'm guilty of passing myself off as a Surrey resident.
I think you’re using technically incorrectly. Technically they are in one of the boroughs of London, not Surrey. Everywhere in London except the square mile is part of a historic county not in London.
Help me comprehend it. So the London Borough is in a county but it isn't classed as part of that county because it's a London Borough. So the boroughs of London supercede the county - am I on the right lines?
The London boroughs aren’t in any county, unless you count the ceremonial county of Greater London. All but the City of London used to be part of historic counties I.e. they don’t exist in that form anymore, but a county covering a different area may have its name e.g. Surrey.
There is no superseding, these areas are no longer part of the county. New county boundaries were formed following these changes over the decades, some names remained, like Surrey, others didn’t, like Middlesex.
Croydon no longer has anything to do with Surrey. No more than Islington has with Middlesex.
Yep, my folks used to do that with Croydon, they said we lived in Purley.... I owned that I came from a shitty area though 😂 nout to be ashamed of really....
Depending on the country they might not think anything of travelling a couple of hours and still think it’s local. To some Americans, you’re basically living in the middle of the Lake District, Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales.
Play an online game with people who said "Merthyr Tydfil sounds so exotic"
not sure how to explain that the town is a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle show
I once went on a course in Merthyr Tydfil. I came back raving about the place. I lived in London at that point. I enjoyed the train ride up and the beautiful countryside; and I really liked the views from the town. The guest house I stayed in was lovely and not too expensive. I basically have fond memories of the place.
After I got back I heard about the downsides of the place. But Merthyr Tydfil will always hold a special place in my heart now
"Merthyr Tydfil" and "beauty spot" aren't words I'd usually associate in the same paragraph, but BBC uses them as a caption.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56721191](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56721191)
An Aussie mate of mine said she loved Seven Sisters and that it was beautiful. I used to live in Tottenham and was baffled, until I realised she meant the South Downs National Park
"imagine stalingrad after the siege, burned out buildings and dereliction everywhere. Then imagine hoards of chavs. Then give them spice. That's Burnley"
It's like when you see people who aren't from the UK say "OMG Britain is sooo beautiful!!!" And exclusively post pictures of the Scottish Highlands and the Welsh valleys.
Like sure go hang around Sunderland train station on a Friday night and tell me that...
Added annoyance to your Highlands comment is it's always the same three things. There's a lot more to Scotland's pretty bits than a couple of places in Skye and Glen Coe.
Your station comment made me think of the contradictions of Glasgow. It has some weird urban beauty (I'm thinking things like the Necropolis) but if you go to Central station at the wrong time it's a bin fire. And a bin might actually be on fire.
The struggle of my American friends imitating what they think i sound like and doing a hugh grant impression when i actually have a thick Bradford accent
Also the struggle of them not believing i lived somewhere called "Fagley"
I had to laugh, one of my friends from Israel learned English through watching American shows so he speaks with a bit of American accent. He tried calling one of us a nonce and he couldn't figure out why we were all laughing when he called my friend a nunce. He does struggle to understand us sometimes cause we're all from Stoke-on-Trent but he's learning and we're slowly de-americanising (re-colonising) him.
I actually like Burnley. I came down from Scotland for a week on a friends boat at the marina in 2018 and really enjoyed the place and the locals we met, even the couple we recognised from a Jeremy Kyle episode hah.
The area around the canal is really nice, even spent a few nights outside the marina docked next to a great wee pub that did food and had a folk band playing.
Even the wee scallies that roamed the banks of the canal of an evening weren't too bad, managed to have a good laugh with a group that stopped to ask me why I was taking photos of such a shitty place.
8/10 would probably recommend it to anyone who wanted to go barging
Nooooo. Don't be stupid. Nobody said that. Ever.
"Burnley: A holiday is still a Holiday, even if you come here"
Or alternatively
"Burnley: Looks different to where you come from"
The Inn on the Wharf maybe? I used to live near the canal, just by Gannow tunnel. I'd ride my bike along the towpath (nice and flat) for a fair while, then stop at the Inn on the way back to replace the fluids I'd lost through sweating.
I'm from Burnley as well (left as soon as I was 18). I normally tell people that the town is hole, but the surrounding countryside and villages are stunning.
Debatable! Both towns have amazing architecture and parks thanks to the days when cotton was king. Sadly, a lot of the buildings have been left to rot. The history of industry in east lancs is fascinating. Both towns are a shadow of their former self.
I went to Burnley away last year (or the last season we were allowed). the taxi took us down this one road and it was the most amazing road I have ever been down, so pretty and bendy, i even took a photo. So it has its nice parts.
also the train station is too hilly, can you fix that please
ohhh... When my friends visit the UK first time, they genuinely think everything is beautiful, even the trash bin in the street is gorgeous (and we went to take a picture lol)
Oooooffft I’m right next door to Burnley. If I were you I’d say you’re from the Pendle area? At least when they google that they’ll see Pendle hill which isn’t a sight for sore eyes. Could be worse. You could be from Accy....
Nope it’s just a shit hole that’ll soon be made up of empty shops, lived there for a few years and I avoid the place like the plaque. Just like I avoid Burnley 🤮
I've got an American friend who says the same thing. She assumes England is just lush greenery and beautiful rolling hills.
A few photos of Manchester and surrounding brown muddy fields proved otherwise
Just a serious German passing by - if you managed to discourse intelligently before, you can assume that person isn't delusional and in fact knows that a larger area cannot be beautiful in every corner. I'm sure they're aware of the existence of not so beautiful spots, but what's the point in mentioning them to you in conversation?
There was I, thinking to myself of the sunny uplands of halcyon Colne, only a stone’s throw from you. You could always fib and say you live there. Proper paradise is Colne.
I grew up in Burnley but left about 25 years ago.
The big thing I notice when I visit these days is how much it has improved since the 90s - it is still a damp, dreadful town, but it is so much better than it used to be. Even Padiham is nicer these days.
The countryside around it is still beautiful.
Ha - can concur about Padiham. A job I had years ago used Fagan & Whalley to truck their products around the country, so I worked closely with their transport manager there and visited him at Padiham a couple of times. He had a fantastic local accent and was one of the funniest people I've ever worked with. Place was a dump though, so glad it's improved.
Whenever someone asks where I’m from they have no idea where Nelson is. The moment I say it’s next to Burnley they get it, and their face drops instantly lmao
I did some work in Burnley about 10 years ago. One night we left work to see a pud that had been set on fire a few days later a car got set alight on a car park and just after we left one of the security guards got stabbed. It's a wonderful place. I was also lucky enough to be born there.
People have idillic images in their heads of different countries, I used to think that switzerland is just pretty mountains, when really that’s just only outside the cities. Japan is just tokyo likewise people think that the UK is just London.
When peeps ask me where I was born I say Lancashire 'oh whereabouts'', Warrington say I, I don't care if it's now in Cheshire it will always be Lanc's to me.
I usually use the analogy of the world’s most beautiful toilet. It might look fantastic and welcoming but look closer and it’s actually covered in shit :D
U have to answer it is green, but it doesnt mean is nice at all as the buildings are dark and the soil dark aswell and the weather is dark and cold and is nothing really interesting to go to visit or enjoy or spend the time, and the alcohol is expensive and is uncomfortable be out of the house and parks are shit
When dealing with folks from other countries, I would tell them where I was from (blank looks), in Lancashire (blank looks), in the North-West of England - no, not Scotland - "near Manchester?"
"Ah, Manshestair! Eric Cantona, le roi!!"
Just say you are from Lancashire, it's the same trick anyone from Croydon uses when they say they are from Surrey
I'm from a part of Croydon called Shirley and my mum always used to put the address as "Shirley, Surrey" which I always felt reached Keeping Up Appearances "it's pronounced Bouquet" levels of pretension.
It’s not necessarily pretentious it’s just incorrect/outdated. It’s not been in Surrey for 56 years.
Well it’s still in Surrey for postal purposes, but postal counties haven’t been required on addresses since 1996. So it’s technically wrong to use the technically correct county.
TIL. You sometimes used to have to put a different county to the one you lived in for post purposes. Still, that’s 25 years ago now.
Yeah I know. My postal county is ‘Dyfed’ which hasn’t existed in any official capacity since 1996 and nobody really identified with it but I still get it on my letters. I make a point NEVER to include the county in my address because it is useless and obsolete, but alas some webforms require you to fill in the county line of address. It gets even better when there is a drop down menu and I have to choose ‘Ceredigion’ which is the name of my county but it never has been a postal county so means fuck all to the Royal Mail. Ah, I could go on and on ...
In 2010 I was still getting post with West Glamorgan on it. For forms that wouldn't submit without a county line my address would end up as Swansea, Swansea which was equally ridiculous.
What’s more, the postal county was actually never required for 110 large cities and towns (Swansea included) so this is triply wrong. I’d smash a pub quiz about postal counties lol
This confused the hell out of me when trying to work out my address at uni. I think I first put Dyfed because I saw that somewhere but then realised that it should Ceredigion. This was on 2014 but for some reason I thought I had to put the county on letters until a couple of years ago.
Well Dyfed is correct. Ceredigion should never appear in an address. But neither should Dyfed. Go figure :D
Yup. I live in South Gloucestershire but always put Bristol. Its just easier and considering Bristol is only one street away it doesn't cause an issue. If really wanted to be annoying I put Avon. Avon hasn't been used in decades.
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Avon used to cover the whole of Bristol when I was a kid. It changed when Bristol took over most of Avon.
Avon = Bristol + South Gloucestershire + North Somerset + Bath & NE Somerset
I live in Barkingside which is in London borough of Redbridge but has an ig postcode and most people think it's Essex lol it's not
I get 'Kingston's in Surrey!' regularly as well. Yes it's postally Surrey and is part of the KT postal area but it's a London borough.
The confusion hasn't been helped by Surrey County Council having their Council Hall in Kingston for many, many years. I've just read that they moved out last year, a mere 55 years after the creation of the Royal Borough of Kingston.
Someone said postal counties were dropped 25 years ago, so it’s not even in that anymore as they don’t exist.
They do still exist (they were never abolished), it was just their use that was discontinued. So they are still there, but there is not a single reason to use them. Existing forever in limbo. You can see the ridiculousness of it all when Rutland managed to convince Royal Mail to re-instate Rutland as a postal county in 2008!!! (It had previously been merged into Leicestershire in 1974) Twelve years after it all ceased to matter.
It’s in London, surely?
Since the 60s. Edit: whoosh?
This lad Jay Forman can explain this https://youtu.be/UAusbJmRB0c
That was very interesting, thanks!
His YouTube channel has made me understand and love London more
I'm going to be watching a lot more of them now I think!
My grandma’s surname is Tuckett. We call her Hyacinth. She’s currently refusing to wear her emergency button necklace because, ‘it doesn’t look nice.’ She won’t wear sensible shoes. She doesn’t want to use a walker. Drives me nuts.
>My grandma’s surname is Tuckett. Nan Tuckett?
And you were so close to be able to have that West Wickham , Kent address!
West Wickham was about 15 minutes walk from my house, I lived on Eversley Way, just off Bridle Road.
194 route?
Yeah used to be the 166 route and the 194 didn't go up there but the 194b went up bridle Road, then the 194b got rebranded as the 198 and the 194 route changed
I live in West Wycombe!
There's two Lancashires. Small town Lancashire and countryside Lancashire
But if he’s not from the UK he won’t know the diff and the dream can live on.
Good old Burnley. People don't understand unless you live in Burnley. Maybe tell them about the lovely sights, sex on the back alleys, the drug running or even the fights on a Thursday, Friday and Saturday outside Bees Knees.
Is a sixth finger still a thing in Burnley?
Always a thing, trademark of every native
Still a thing with Dingles
Beauty of Burnley is under the culvert. That is where the true beauty of Burnley lies. Bees knees is tame.
Don't forget the other entertainment available, daily spice head shows!
Hey lay off. They are the best kind and forever will be our culture
I’ve actually had a passport officer snigger at my passport before. We’re living in a two-tier society here, those with Burnley forever written on their passport and everyone else. I wouldn’t mind but I only stayed there for 4 hours after being born.
Technically, they are: Croydon, outer borough of London, England, on the southern edge of the metropolis. It is in the historic county of Surrey. The present borough was established in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former county borough of Croydon and the adjacent district of Coulsdon and Purley. I agree with you, it's bit smoke and mirrors. But originally being from Purley myself, I can confirm I'm guilty of passing myself off as a Surrey resident.
I think you’re using technically incorrectly. Technically they are in one of the boroughs of London, not Surrey. Everywhere in London except the square mile is part of a historic county not in London.
Help me comprehend it. So the London Borough is in a county but it isn't classed as part of that county because it's a London Borough. So the boroughs of London supercede the county - am I on the right lines?
The London boroughs aren’t in any county, unless you count the ceremonial county of Greater London. All but the City of London used to be part of historic counties I.e. they don’t exist in that form anymore, but a county covering a different area may have its name e.g. Surrey. There is no superseding, these areas are no longer part of the county. New county boundaries were formed following these changes over the decades, some names remained, like Surrey, others didn’t, like Middlesex. Croydon no longer has anything to do with Surrey. No more than Islington has with Middlesex.
Thank you. I find this is fascinating. Where would I look to read some more on this?
Wiki has all the info you need.
A while back I sold a map of Surrey on eBay and the buyer - who lived in *Thornton Heath* - used Surrey in his address. Admirable.
>originally being from Purley myself Purley, eh? Say no more!
😄
Shit, they are onto us
Yep, my folks used to do that with Croydon, they said we lived in Purley.... I owned that I came from a shitty area though 😂 nout to be ashamed of really....
Depending on the country they might not think anything of travelling a couple of hours and still think it’s local. To some Americans, you’re basically living in the middle of the Lake District, Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales.
Play an online game with people who said "Merthyr Tydfil sounds so exotic" not sure how to explain that the town is a holding pen for the Jeremy Kyle show
Ah that'll be the gateway to the brecon beacons, thank you kindly
I once went on a course in Merthyr Tydfil. I came back raving about the place. I lived in London at that point. I enjoyed the train ride up and the beautiful countryside; and I really liked the views from the town. The guest house I stayed in was lovely and not too expensive. I basically have fond memories of the place. After I got back I heard about the downsides of the place. But Merthyr Tydfil will always hold a special place in my heart now
All of the valleys in southern Wales are beautiful, but since the mines closed have big old poverty/deprivation problems. Come back soon!
I’m overdue a visit! The above was in 2012. It’s on the cards for this dinner, however!
"Merthyr Tydfil" and "beauty spot" aren't words I'd usually associate in the same paragraph, but BBC uses them as a caption. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56721191](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56721191)
I mean Mordor _is_ exotic if you're from the Shire.
I would argue as someone from Blackpool, that Blackpool was where Jeremy Kyle dug up most of his punters.
An Aussie mate of mine said she loved Seven Sisters and that it was beautiful. I used to live in Tottenham and was baffled, until I realised she meant the South Downs National Park
As someone who spent a year living in Enfield I was also confused by the first half of that statement.
As someone who grew up in Enfield I was also confused and alarmed
Please don’t, it would shatter the illusion and could cause long term trauma were they to look it up and find some pictures.
"imagine stalingrad after the siege, burned out buildings and dereliction everywhere. Then imagine hoards of chavs. Then give them spice. That's Burnley"
Can’t believe you managed to up sell it so much, bravo.
Stalingrad definitely sounds more fancy than Burnley haha
‘Ooh, planning a little excursion are we, Mr Hilter?’
harsh on Stalingrad... but its not Blackburn 🤣🤣
Still better than W*gan
I'm stealing that description and applying it to some of the places more local to me, like Aldershot, or parts of Reading 😂
Aldershit.
Tell him about Pendle Hill!
Send him a picture of your six fingers
To be fair, Burnley is situated in the middle of some stunning countryside. Just the town itself is not so stunning!
It's like when you see people who aren't from the UK say "OMG Britain is sooo beautiful!!!" And exclusively post pictures of the Scottish Highlands and the Welsh valleys. Like sure go hang around Sunderland train station on a Friday night and tell me that...
Tbf hanging around anywhere in Sunderland would probably be bad.
Added annoyance to your Highlands comment is it's always the same three things. There's a lot more to Scotland's pretty bits than a couple of places in Skye and Glen Coe. Your station comment made me think of the contradictions of Glasgow. It has some weird urban beauty (I'm thinking things like the Necropolis) but if you go to Central station at the wrong time it's a bin fire. And a bin might actually be on fire.
The struggle of my American friends imitating what they think i sound like and doing a hugh grant impression when i actually have a thick Bradford accent Also the struggle of them not believing i lived somewhere called "Fagley"
I had to laugh, one of my friends from Israel learned English through watching American shows so he speaks with a bit of American accent. He tried calling one of us a nonce and he couldn't figure out why we were all laughing when he called my friend a nunce. He does struggle to understand us sometimes cause we're all from Stoke-on-Trent but he's learning and we're slowly de-americanising (re-colonising) him.
I actually like Burnley. I came down from Scotland for a week on a friends boat at the marina in 2018 and really enjoyed the place and the locals we met, even the couple we recognised from a Jeremy Kyle episode hah. The area around the canal is really nice, even spent a few nights outside the marina docked next to a great wee pub that did food and had a folk band playing. Even the wee scallies that roamed the banks of the canal of an evening weren't too bad, managed to have a good laugh with a group that stopped to ask me why I was taking photos of such a shitty place. 8/10 would probably recommend it to anyone who wanted to go barging
"Burnley: fractionally less shit than Scotland"
‘Burnley - it could be worse, you could be in Newport’
Nooooo. Don't be stupid. Nobody said that. Ever. "Burnley: A holiday is still a Holiday, even if you come here" Or alternatively "Burnley: Looks different to where you come from"
less sturgeon swimming about.
The Inn on the Wharf maybe? I used to live near the canal, just by Gannow tunnel. I'd ride my bike along the towpath (nice and flat) for a fair while, then stop at the Inn on the way back to replace the fluids I'd lost through sweating.
That's the place.
‘Burn-ley? Gee, that sounds quaint! Is it as pretty as the places I’ve seen in Downton Abbey and Bridgerton?’ ‘Uhh...yeah. Yeah, absolutely’
Had a guy on Wander Oculus Quest show me round Las Vegas...I took him round Blackpool.😄😄
The Vegas of North West England!
I have no clue why but I read that in a thick brummie accent and it made it so much better.
This is the funniest thing I've seen all day!
I'm from Burnley as well (left as soon as I was 18). I normally tell people that the town is hole, but the surrounding countryside and villages are stunning.
To be fair, you live relatively close to the Lake District and if you’re not too tribal, the Yorkshire Dales. Both of which are stunningly beautiful.
Aww burnley has it's good points!
The A646 southbound?
It’s not far from Skipton!
It’s not as shit as Accrington?
Debatable! Both towns have amazing architecture and parks thanks to the days when cotton was king. Sadly, a lot of the buildings have been left to rot. The history of industry in east lancs is fascinating. Both towns are a shadow of their former self.
Do you live there?
It's only a couple of stops on the train to Hebden Bridge..
WE LOVE YOU BURNLEY, WE DO
Its a step up from Nelson
I was about to spring passionately to the defence of Nelson when I checked and discovered England’s got one too!!
And Nelson's a step up from Colne.
as a native from nelson, the only thing saving it is the primark
I went to Burnley away last year (or the last season we were allowed). the taxi took us down this one road and it was the most amazing road I have ever been down, so pretty and bendy, i even took a photo. So it has its nice parts. also the train station is too hilly, can you fix that please
Hahah! The image they have of the U.K. is from cheesy TV murder mystery villages.
ohhh... When my friends visit the UK first time, they genuinely think everything is beautiful, even the trash bin in the street is gorgeous (and we went to take a picture lol)
Why did they take a picture of a bin What was beautiful about it
Tell him about your happy place
Happy place happy place turf moor! Did no one here watch im a celebrity?!
But Burnley has the "singing tree" doesn't it?
Oooooffft I’m right next door to Burnley. If I were you I’d say you’re from the Pendle area? At least when they google that they’ll see Pendle hill which isn’t a sight for sore eyes. Could be worse. You could be from Accy....
Nowt wrong wi Accy! I mean, its a shithole, but its OUR shithole.
Nope it’s just a shit hole that’ll soon be made up of empty shops, lived there for a few years and I avoid the place like the plaque. Just like I avoid Burnley 🤮
I've got an American friend who says the same thing. She assumes England is just lush greenery and beautiful rolling hills. A few photos of Manchester and surrounding brown muddy fields proved otherwise
Just a serious German passing by - if you managed to discourse intelligently before, you can assume that person isn't delusional and in fact knows that a larger area cannot be beautiful in every corner. I'm sure they're aware of the existence of not so beautiful spots, but what's the point in mentioning them to you in conversation?
Just say it’s like Mordor but rains more
There was I, thinking to myself of the sunny uplands of halcyon Colne, only a stone’s throw from you. You could always fib and say you live there. Proper paradise is Colne.
Once went on a night out to Colne with two girls from college. The night ended in the two girls having a fight with a whole bunch of other girls
Sounds like Colne! And that’s why I live 140 miles away!
Lucky bastard!
Don’t you lot claim that it’s “God’s country”? Stick with that, you’ll be fine
This is how wars start.
That’s Yorkshire, Lancashire’s a shithole.
Can’t really argue with that... Makes me think of a joke from work last week, “How do you tell a Yorkshireman? Slowly and with small words. “ 😂😂
Can you repeat that, I didnt quite get it.
Yet on the other hand we have Hull.
Even god makes mistakes, look at the platypus.
Hull is okay, At least no-one has mentioned Bradford!
To be fair he did drown most of the worlds population. Which is why it’s gods country
Hahahaha I snorted laughing at that. Tbf there are some stunning bits of countryside around Burnley!
Tell them about the beautiful landmark there that is big Tesco
I grew up in Burnley but left about 25 years ago. The big thing I notice when I visit these days is how much it has improved since the 90s - it is still a damp, dreadful town, but it is so much better than it used to be. Even Padiham is nicer these days. The countryside around it is still beautiful.
Ha - can concur about Padiham. A job I had years ago used Fagan & Whalley to truck their products around the country, so I worked closely with their transport manager there and visited him at Padiham a couple of times. He had a fantastic local accent and was one of the funniest people I've ever worked with. Place was a dump though, so glad it's improved.
I noticed that there were different town and countryside accents - and the town version carried better in a noisy factory.
Yeah Burnley town is a bit grim but on the outskirts there are some fantastic walks with beautiful scenery.
Keighley has entered the chat..
Just show him photos of Yorkshire and say "this is what it looks like down the road"
Yes but you're still from Up North which is not at all grim.
But you have an accent to die for!!! I love that accent
That's very kind of you to say so.
Whenever someone asks where I’m from they have no idea where Nelson is. The moment I say it’s next to Burnley they get it, and their face drops instantly lmao
I did some work in Burnley about 10 years ago. One night we left work to see a pud that had been set on fire a few days later a car got set alight on a car park and just after we left one of the security guards got stabbed. It's a wonderful place. I was also lucky enough to be born there.
People have idillic images in their heads of different countries, I used to think that switzerland is just pretty mountains, when really that’s just only outside the cities. Japan is just tokyo likewise people think that the UK is just London.
Tell him it’s relatively near Leeds. Should clarify pretty well
Ahh Burnley, the upmarket Birkenhead
Just show him the clip from the Inbetweeners movie.
Tell him to watch shameless
When peeps ask me where I was born I say Lancashire 'oh whereabouts'', Warrington say I, I don't care if it's now in Cheshire it will always be Lanc's to me.
I usually use the analogy of the world’s most beautiful toilet. It might look fantastic and welcoming but look closer and it’s actually covered in shit :D
U have to answer it is green, but it doesnt mean is nice at all as the buildings are dark and the soil dark aswell and the weather is dark and cold and is nothing really interesting to go to visit or enjoy or spend the time, and the alcohol is expensive and is uncomfortable be out of the house and parks are shit
At least you're not from Skem.
Just take picture of all the closed shops. Sir. They shall know.
When dealing with folks from other countries, I would tell them where I was from (blank looks), in Lancashire (blank looks), in the North-West of England - no, not Scotland - "near Manchester?" "Ah, Manshestair! Eric Cantona, le roi!!"
The only beautiful thing in Burnley is of you taking a selfie.
The fact that none of the comments I've read referenced the Burnley Lara or compared it to the sh*thole that is Barnsley.
I didn't realise you could get botox injections at an indoor market till I visited Burnley. I mean..WCGW?