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[Misc] Where Does The North Start ?











GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009
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Gloucester
Interesting discussion with a friendly random in Twitter over where the 'North' starts.

I concluded a while ago that the crooked spire in Chesterfield was the entry point. I wonder if folk differ on this ?

Yes they do differ! For some, the M25 represents the northern edge of civilisation. The Jarrow lads I shared a flat with at Uni reckoned Liverpool was part of the south!
 


Boys 9d

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Jan 3, 2012
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Lancing
On another Football Forum my signature states: "The North Begins at Gatwick".
 




Dick Head

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Jan 3, 2010
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North is an artifice that doesn't actually exist anywhere other than in our minds.
 


ManOfSussex

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Apr 11, 2016
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Rape of Hastings, Sussex
Watford Gap. I was born and grew up here, but all my family are from the Midlands and I've always thought that as the north to me, personally I've never seen a difference. Relatives inserting the word 'our' or 'ar' before saying my first name, referring to Sussex as 'down south' and being called a 'daft apeth' confirms this.
 


Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014
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Watford Gap. I was born and grew up here, but all my family are from the Midlands and I've always thought that as the north to me, personally I've never seen a difference. Relatives inserting the word 'our' or 'ar' before saying my first name, referring to Sussex as 'down south' and being called a 'daft apeth' confirms this.

My Mum used to call me a 'daft apeth' and she was born in Brighton !
 






Tesco in Disguise

Where do we go from here?
Jul 5, 2003
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Wienerville
The line that links the Severn to the Humber is a guide that works for me.

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ManOfSussex

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Apr 11, 2016
15,174
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
My Mum used to call me a 'daft apeth' and she was born in Brighton !

With all due respect to your Mum, I doubt she looked and sounded just like Dame Thora Hird did when my Great Auntie Mary said it to me.

(Fortunately her and my Great Uncle Harry never needed a Stannah stair lift like Dame Thora did as they lived in a bungalow in Hinckley.)
 






















Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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Cumbria
Depends where you are I suppose. One of my friends is from Derbyshire, and gets called a southerner round here!
 


Wrong-Direction

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