). Those up in Redcar and Cleveland think that they are North East, but really we all know they are still part of Yorkshire in their hearts!! Just seen my posts from last night,and reading them again they look quite aggressive,which was not the spirit in which they were written,which was a bit of a dig at Newcastle and its image and its stereotypes.(apart from the racist bit,ill stick by that)There are some fantastic beaches up and around Seahouses/Berwick,the coast line is superb and we travel there regularly,but i would not swap it for the Dales,the Peak district etc as these places never fail to take my breath no matter how mnay times i go.Funnily enough i work with a chap who is from up that way and he seems to have a bit of an identity crisis.He has that North East twang in his Yorkshire accent,and you usully get a mixed bag of pronunciation in any one sentence.Ill ask him what he feels he is part of. Haha I've done the interwebby after the pub thing too cnosni. Not a good idea! And it was rather ironic that you accused Geordies of bigotry in a rather bigoted rant! On that topic, by the way, I do agree that there is more racism in the north east but like all racism it is borne out of fear of the unknown. The area hasn't seen the migrants Leeds [for instance] has over the years. Leeds is a truly multi-cultural city.I was going to attempt to counter all your accusations about this area but seeing as you've pulled back a bit I'll save myself the trouble. But there are a couple of things I'd say. In regard to plain speaking - I can only speak from my own experience but I find that people from the north east are even blunter than Yorkshire folk. It's one of the reasons I like the place. Football shirts - go abroad and you'll see blokes from all over the UK wearing their team's shirts. Nights out - it's a similar picture in town and city centres UK wide, Leeds included. You're correct to say I've never heard anyone say they come from Northumbria. But that's due to the manufactured county of Tyne and Wear. Plenty of people say they come from Tyneside or County Durham still. [I don't include Teesside in my 'north east' category by the way. Not a pretty place at all.] Exiles - what do you miss about Leeds the most?
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String o' beads
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cnosni wrote: LS1 wrote: Just to make a small point without being too controversial (cnosno ). Those up in Redcar and Cleveland think that they are North East, but really we all know they are still part of Yorkshire in their hearts!! Just seen my posts from last night,and reading them again they look quite aggressive,which was not the spirit in which they were written,which was a bit of a dig at Newcastle and its image and its stereotypes.(apart from the racist bit,ill stick by that)There are some fantastic beaches up and around Seahouses/Berwick,the coast line is superb and we travel there regularly,but i would not swap it for the Dales,the Peak district etc as these places never fail to take my breath no matter how mnay times i go.Funnily enough i work with a chap who is from up that way and he seems to have a bit of an identity crisis.He has that North East twang in his Yorkshire accent,and you usully get a mixed bag of pronunciation in any one sentence.Ill ask him what he feels he is part of. Haha I've done the interwebby after the pub thing too cnosni. Not a good idea! And it was rather ironic that you accused Geordies of bigotry in a rather bigoted rant! On that topic, by the way, I do agree that there is more racism in the north east but like all racism it is borne out of fear of the unknown. The area hasn't seen the migrants Leeds [for instance] has over the years. Leeds is a truly multi-cultural city.I was going to attempt to counter all your accusations about this area but seeing as you've pulled back a bit I'll save myself the trouble. But there are a couple of things I'd say. In regard to plain speaking - I can only speak from my own experience but I find that people from the north east are even blunter than Yorkshire folk. It's one of the reasons I like the place. Football shirts - go abroad and you'll see blokes from all over the UK wearing their team's shirts. Nights out - it's a similar picture in town and city centres UK wide, Leeds included. You're correct to say I've never heard anyone say they come from Northumbria. But that's due to the manufactured county of Tyne and Wear. Plenty of people say they come from Tyneside or County Durham still. [I don't include Teesside in my 'north east' category by the way. Not a pretty place at all.]
). Those up in Redcar and Cleveland think that they are North East, but really we all know they are still part of Yorkshire in their hearts!! Just seen my posts from last night,and reading them again they look quite aggressive,which was not the spirit in which they were written,which was a bit of a dig at Newcastle and its image and its stereotypes.(apart from the racist bit,ill stick by that)There are some fantastic beaches up and around Seahouses/Berwick,the coast line is superb and we travel there regularly,but i would not swap it for the Dales,the Peak district etc as these places never fail to take my breath no matter how mnay times i go.Funnily enough i work with a chap who is from up that way and he seems to have a bit of an identity crisis.He has that North East twang in his Yorkshire accent,and you usully get a mixed bag of pronunciation in any one sentence.Ill ask him what he feels he is part of. Haha I've done the interwebby after the pub thing too cnosni. Not a good idea! And it was rather ironic that you accused Geordies of bigotry in a rather bigoted rant! On that topic, by the way, I do agree that there is more racism in the north east but like all racism it is borne out of fear of the unknown. The area hasn't seen the migrants Leeds [for instance] has over the years. Leeds is a truly multi-cultural city.I was going to attempt to counter all your accusations about this area but seeing as you've pulled back a bit I'll save myself the trouble. But there are a couple of things I'd say. In regard to plain speaking - I can only speak from my own experience but I find that people from the north east are even blunter than Yorkshire folk. It's one of the reasons I like the place. Football shirts - go abroad and you'll see blokes from all over the UK wearing their team's shirts. Nights out - it's a similar picture in town and city centres UK wide, Leeds included. You're correct to say I've never heard anyone say they come from Northumbria. But that's due to the manufactured county of Tyne and Wear. Plenty of people say they come from Tyneside or County Durham still. [I don't include Teesside in my 'north east' category by the way. Not a pretty place at all.] -
peterg
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I left Leeds 48 years ago. I've been back a few times and I still have two sisters living in Yorkshire, but to go back now means to see what has changed, not what I knew.I miss fish&chips, a pint of Tetley's mixed, RL at Headingley (under the old rules, the new ones don't conviince me much and the American style names even less). I also went to Elland Road (among other games, was present at John Charles' Easter Tuesday debut against Queen of the South) and still check up the results on the Internet.Also, from the South African visit (was it 1946 or 1947) I never missed a Test Match at Headingley until I left Leeds, even though on one occasion I only got there to the last hour on one day only.I have never wished to have been born anywhere else, and am proud of having been born in Leeds, but at my age now I don't think that Leeds has much to offer me.
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Trojan
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LS1 wrote: Just to make a small point without being too controversial (cnosno ). Those up in Redcar and Cleveland think that they are North East, but really we all know they are still part of Yorkshire in their hearts!! Yorkshire used to stretch from the Tees in the North to the Don in the South. So effectively we had Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Geordie in the North and Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Midlands in Sheffied (Dee and Da) In the East we have the Codheads and in the far West of the old West Riding we had around Whitewell, Slaidburn, Gisburn, Rimington Yorkies who speak with an East Lancashire accent, and of course Saddleworth, where they speak with an Oldham accent, and have a white rose as the badge of their area. Yes I think being Yorkshire can be said to encompass most persuasions of Northern Life!
). Those up in Redcar and Cleveland think that they are North East, but really we all know they are still part of Yorkshire in their hearts!! Yorkshire used to stretch from the Tees in the North to the Don in the South. So effectively we had Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Geordie in the North and Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Midlands in Sheffied (Dee and Da) In the East we have the Codheads and in the far West of the old West Riding we had around Whitewell, Slaidburn, Gisburn, Rimington Yorkies who speak with an East Lancashire accent, and of course Saddleworth, where they speak with an Oldham accent, and have a white rose as the badge of their area. Yes I think being Yorkshire can be said to encompass most persuasions of Northern Life! Industria Omnia Vincit
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Sir_Zonneveld
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It has to be said there is no place like leeds, I've spent the last 5 months In corpus Christi, texas and although the weather was brilliant,the experience fantastic,not to mention the beaches filled to the brim with beautifully bronzed women...I was always Missing home.I love the nightlife,which i think is pretty hard to beat.I just think us Loiners are the most down to earth people around.
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fevlad
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Trojan wrote: LS1 wrote: Just to make a small point without being too controversial (cnosno ). Those up in Redcar and Cleveland think that they are North East, but really we all know they are still part of Yorkshire in their hearts!! Yorkshire used to stretch from the Tees in the North to the Don in the South. So effectively we had Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Geordie in the North and Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Midlands in Sheffied (Dee and Da) In the East we have the Codheads and in the far West of the old West Riding we had around Whitewell, Slaidburn, Gisburn, Rimington Yorkies who speak with an East Lancashire accent, and of course Saddleworth, where they speak with an Oldham accent, and have a white rose as the badge of their area. Yes I think being Yorkshire can be said to encompass most persuasions of Northern Life! even further than that Trojthe west riding-not even the whole of yoprks went up as far as Sedbergh which is now in cumbria and Bawtry in the South which (I think) is now in Notts.
). Those up in Redcar and Cleveland think that they are North East, but really we all know they are still part of Yorkshire in their hearts!! Yorkshire used to stretch from the Tees in the North to the Don in the South. So effectively we had Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Geordie in the North and Yorkshire people speaking a language akin to Midlands in Sheffied (Dee and Da) In the East we have the Codheads and in the far West of the old West Riding we had around Whitewell, Slaidburn, Gisburn, Rimington Yorkies who speak with an East Lancashire accent, and of course Saddleworth, where they speak with an Oldham accent, and have a white rose as the badge of their area. Yes I think being Yorkshire can be said to encompass most persuasions of Northern Life! even further than that Trojthe west riding-not even the whole of yoprks went up as far as Sedbergh which is now in cumbria and Bawtry in the South which (I think) is now in Notts.I went down to the crossroads and got down on my knees
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FLOJO
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(24 years later there are still thinks that I really hanker for and miss a load. T hold onto and treasure the Kirkgate Market!)I came to South Africa in 91 and still miss Leeds market and the characters who worked there. We always went to Burbecks cafe for tea and a boiled ham sandwich with english mustard. In the late 50s early 60s has a child we used to go to Popes pie and pea stall at the bottom end of the market , I think the pies were called Trunnell pies and were made with tripe, Can any one else remember Popes?
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Patexpat
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What do I miss?The delights of Lewis's food hall - a special shopping treat excursion as a young lad with my mum on Saturday afternoons ...Real fish and chips in newspaper ... (tho surprisingly there is a local fish and chip restaurant here that uses imported atlantic cod, norwegian potatoes and uses lard for frying ... even has a warning that anyone who is not from UK may not like the way the chips are cooked, and offer a ' crunchy french fry' as an alternative!)cold, fresh winter mornings - tho I suspect that given reality and a rude awakening of actually experiencing it again, the cool winter temperature of my adopted home (drops to about 18 deg centigrade in winter) would seem very attractive ....model railway exhibitions that were held at the corn exchange .. I guess they stopped a long time ago - ... and walking the dog in Stanningley or Bramley park !!
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MrsG
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We must have passed each other with our removal vans on the A14 - I moved to Leeds from Corby nearly 7 years ago - best thing I ever did!!! If you've ever visited Corby you will completely understand!! This is a great city, the people are so friendly, there's so much more to do, fish and chips (with scraps of course!) is better than anywhere in the world, and my husband loves all the real ales in the pubs - his best mate who lives in kettering comes up every couple of months so they go out sampling them all!!
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Mick_SGC
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I leave leeds on the 3rd of july for a few months, maybe more.The thing is, I dont know what I will miss.....reading through this thread hasnt really done much because most of the things that are missed arent around anymore....I'll be back with some awnsers of my own soon but for now....What will I miss?
I'll be back (arnie)