Does anybody in Leeds(anywhere?)speak Welsh?

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Trojan
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Keg wrote: Give me the royals any day over a house full of bent MPs and the chav brigade.In fairness a lot of what the royal family bring is unmeasurable, yes there are a few minor royals that are hangers on but the main family bring a lot of tourism in.Most of our current communist sorry New Labour goverment despise the Royal family yet immediatley adopt the airs and graces as soon as they gain power. I dislike gormless Gordon in many ways but at least he hasn't taken on the airs that the Wicked Witch and His Tonniness did/still do. Obviously I disagree and think you are totally wrong.
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Keg wrote: Give me the royals any day over a house full of bent MPs and the chav brigade.In fairness a lot of what the royal family bring is unmeasurable, yes there are a few minor royals that are hangers on but the main family bring a lot of tourism in.Most of our current communist sorry New Labour goverment despise the Royal family yet immediatley adopt the airs and graces as soon as they gain power. I dislike gormless Gordon in many ways but at least he hasn't taken on the airs that the Wicked Witch and His Tonniness did/still do. I'm with Trojan here, as well.
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Which you both have a right to do so, that's the whole point of free speech and lively debate. It's the old " I may not agree with what you say, but i'll fight for the right for you to say it".Do carry on, on what points and why do you disagree?.
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Keg wrote: Which you both have a right to do so, that's the whole point of free speech and lively debate. It's the old " I may not agree with what you say, but i'll fight for the right for you to say it".Do carry on, on what points and why do you disagree?. No I've been down that road on here recently and I'm not doing it again. That's not really what the forum is for is it?
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I thougt the forum was about Leeds (mainly), and i have to say i have learnt a lot about Leeds I never knew exsisted on here, but also about general chat.I know some threads go off subject ( i'm on a Landrover forum that regularly does this), but isn't that part of the fun?. As long as it doesn't get personal it should be part of life.I think i know the the issue you are reffering to, I hadn't been on in ages and logged back in after a few weeks and was amazed as to what had been going backwards and forward so can understand your concern in getting into discussion :-)
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Keg wrote: Which you both have a right to do so, that's the whole point of free speech and lively debate. It's the old " I may not agree with what you say, but i'll fight for the right for you to say it".Do carry on, on what points and why do you disagree?. The debate about the Monarchy is the same as politics and religion; opinions tend to be entrenched and therefore unlikely to change. On this forum I'm content that we agree to differ on this tangential topic. I hope you enjoy the speech next Friday!
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When I was at school in Leeds in the 60s there was one Welsh word most people knew - Nos Da - Goodnight.The announcer on one of the TV Channels ( BBC or ITV not much choice back then) always used to say this either at the close of transmission or possibly at the end of the news ( memory fades) and it became a bit of a catch phrase. Anyone else remember this?    
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blackprince wrote: When I was at school in Leeds in the 60s there was one Welsh word most people knew - Nos Da - Goodnight.The announcer on one of the TV Channels ( BBC or ITV not much choice back then) always used to say this either at the close of transmission or possibly at the end of the news ( memory fades) and it became a bit of a catch phrase. Anyone else remember this?     It was Bill Grundy wasn't it - nos dar, something like, yaccy dar (apologies to any ones who knows how that IS spelt) and good night, after the 'local' news?

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chameleon wrote: blackprince wrote: When I was at school in Leeds in the 60s there was one Welsh word most people knew - Nos Da - Goodnight.The announcer on one of the TV Channels ( BBC or ITV not much choice back then) always used to say this either at the close of transmission or possibly at the end of the news ( memory fades) and it became a bit of a catch phrase. Anyone else remember this?     It was Bill Grundy wasn't it - nos dar, something like, yaccy dar (apologies to any ones who knows how that IS spelt) and good night, after the 'local' news? It was because up to 1968 and the advent of Yorkshire, our "local" news came from Manchester. And they covered parts of North Wales. It had it's pluses and minuses. One of the pluses was that the Granada early evening programme (like Look North) in 1962, featured an unknown rock group from Liverpool. The Beatles. So Leeds people were privileged to see the first TV appearance of the Fab Four. I was one of them and was sold from day one. Still am.
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Welsh miners got around a fair bit when their local pits closed, and certainly migrated up to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire coal fields. There is a St Davids Society in Bradford: http://www.communigate.co.uk/brad/stdavidssociety/ .I'm vaguely interested as we long thought that there might be a Welsh connection in our family, but having now started digging about using Ancestry.co.uk, it seems that it might be less likely in the last few generations at least.

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