Is Barrow in Cumbria or Lancashire?

Was Hull EVER really part of Yorkshire?

Did God really take an English County to his bosom and call it Yorkshire?


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In 1974, the newly formed boundary of Lancashire stole land from Yorkshire. The newly formed county of Cumbria stole land from Yorkshire. The newly formed county of Greater Manchester stole land from Yorkshire. Let's not even mention the land Cleveland and Humberside took.

Overall, God did bugger all.

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Paul Cullen would shake his head in disbelief and this geographical vomit. And then no doubt add some random words together to make up a sentence that doesn't make any sense but still fits into a Rugby League scenario.

Both St Helens and Widnes are within a stones throw of Liverpool, yet neither are Scouse.

Just ask anyone from the City of Liverpool if the inhabitants of either town are fellow Scousers and you'll get the same answer...we are both dismissed as 'Woolybacks'.

I thought Cullen was meant to be the buffer between James Rule and the players?

Thats it then, Scouse gets

Quote: wire quin "Thats it then, Scouse gets Proof if it were ever needed ! Anyhoo...who gives FF? A little history lesson of it is at all required but the 'Scouse Migration' took place predominantly in the 50's & 60's due to so called slum clearances. The people who lived in the housing areas which were cleared moved to, amongst many other places, outlying towns such as Widnes, Runcorn, Skelmersdale and a little strangely Winsford. Newer housing estates, such as Upton in Widnes were built and Scousers moved en masse into these areas so, as they all sort of stuck together, the accent remained. I grew up in Upton and as such have loads of scouse friends and aquaintances. Nothing wrong with Scousers as a whole although some can be opinionated and sanctimonious, a bit like Yorkshire folk in that respect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouse

Quote: wire quin "Thats it then, Scouse gets Proof if it were ever needed ! Anyhoo...who gives FF? A little history lesson of it is at all required but the 'Scouse Migration' took place predominantly in the 50's & 60's due to so called slum clearances. The people who lived in the housing areas which were cleared moved to, amongst many other places, outlying towns such as Widnes, Runcorn, Skelmersdale and a little strangely Winsford. Newer housing estates, such as Upton in Widnes were built and Scousers moved en masse into these areas so, as they all sort of stuck together, the accent remained. I grew up in Upton and as such have loads of scouse friends and aquaintances. Nothing wrong with Scousers as a whole although some can be opinionated and sanctimonious, a bit like Yorkshire folk in that respect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouse

To my Warringtonian ear the traditional Widnes and Sintellins accents are very similar. And it isn't Scouse it is rather unique.

Barrow used to be in Lancashire, Hull was technically a county in its own right between c.1485 and 1974 and if my neighbour's to be believed God is WELSH!

Widnes is becoming more and more scouse all the time... My friend lives there, has done all his life, he has 3 children, all boys, 7, 11, 14.... They all go to school in widnes, play rugby in widnes, support widnes....ALL of them have a scouse accent.

if you speak with a scouse accent, you're a scouser.. It doesnt matter where you live or what your phone number is. Your ACCENT is the thing that defines you.

Well i have been living in Widnes for a long time and my family, and non of us have scouse accents.Even know Scousers living in Warrington too. Soon Scousers be taking hold of Wire.

Ironic that somebody from Warrington calls Widnesians scousers!

To my ears Warringtonians sound scouse. And where i'm from we call Warringtonians scousers, well plastic scousers with St Helens.