[Football] You can't get much more northern than this ...

[goldstone]

Ramsbottom United 2 Workington 0

FA Trophy First Round Replay

 

[GOM]

Ramsbottom United 2 Workington 0

FA Trophy First Round Replay

Blatant regionalism, is that allowed ?

 

[Stat Brother]

Just to ice the cake the winner plays Horsham next.
Ramsbottom won't be looking forward to that grim northern outpost.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

My wife always takes the piss out of the streets I grew up on (Throxenby Way and Thirkleby Royd are the ones she titters at, even after 25 years..) - and the surnames of the kids I went to school with.. Stopforth, Longthorpe and Armitage being a few...

It's grim up North...

 

[Gwylan]

Ramsbottom United 2 Workington 0

You could: Ramsbottom v Grimethorpe

Or Ramsbottom v Blubberhouses ... record pie sales, I reckon

 

[Jahooli]

My wife always takes the piss out of the streets I grew up on (Throxenby Way and Thirkleby Royd are the ones she titters at, even after 25 years..) - and the surnames of the kids I went to school with.. Stopforth, Longthorpe and Armitage being a few...

It's grim up North...

Royd? Sounds like someone trying to talk posh, I thought Road was pronounced Rhurd ....I always chuckled when I saw Nibthwaite Road in Wealdstone.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

I think 'Royd' is old-Yorkshire for Road.

I left there (clinging to to the underside of a lorry bound for the M1 South) thirty years ago though..

 

[Dave the OAP]

I think 'Royd' is old-Yorkshire for Road.

I left there (clinging to to the underside of a lorry bound for the M1 South) thirty years ago though..

My nan had two sisters and one of them married a Boothroyd.

 

[Perry Milkins]

My nan had two sisters and one of them married a Boothroyd.

Begs the question who did the other one marry?

 

[GOM]

Royd? Sounds like someone trying to talk posh, I thought Road was pronounced Rhurd ....I always chuckled when I saw Nibthwaite Road in Wealdstone.

I think 'Royd' is old-Yorkshire for Road.

I left there (clinging to to the underside of a lorry bound for the M1 South) thirty years ago though..

Royd is an Anglian word meaning "cleared area of ground".

 

[goldstone]

THE LION AND ALBERT
There’s a famous seaside place called Blackpool,
That’s noted for fresh air and fun,
And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son.
A grand little lad was young Albert,
All dressed in his best; quite a swell
With a stick with an ‘orse’s ‘ead ‘andle,
The finest that Woolworth’s could sell.

If you've not heard of it before, google it. Very amusing!

 

[Knocky's Nose]

Royd is an Anglian word meaning "cleared area of ground".

Well, Thirkleby Royd is still a densely packed street full of poorly maintained council houses, so that's not quite the ticket.... It's as 'clear' as a lip readers work schedule at the moment.

My dear Nan used to say "Reet, I'm off down't throyd tu't shops" (translated into Southern as 'Alright Geezers, I'm off daahn the shops if yer wan' ennyfin'..."

*hence my thinking Royd meant Road.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Just to ice the cake the winner plays Horsham next.
Ramsbottom won't be looking forward to that grim northern outpost.

Lucky for Ramsbottom they didn't get an away tie in Wales, otherwise they'd be returning home rather sore...

 

[Insel affe]

My wife always takes the piss out of the streets I grew up on (Throxenby Way and Thirkleby Royd are the ones she titters at, even after 25 years..) - and the surnames of the kids I went to school with.. Stopforth, Longthorpe and Armitage being a few...

It's grim up North...

Did you ever "cut through snicket"

It is and it isn't, having spent some of my early teens in Wigan then later Manchester. I did think in some aspects it drove me nuts, the backward neanderthal blokes in white shirts and socks and black pants on a Friday and a Saturday night wanting a fight with anyone especially if you were dressed differently or from outside the village or town.

The Pies, and chip shops were awesome, and the sayings were fantastic, people once you got to know them were nearly always friendly and welcoming.

 

[GOM]

Well, Thirkleby Royd is still a densely packed street full of poorly maintained council houses, so that's not quite the ticket.... It's as 'clear' as a lip readers work schedule at the moment.

My dear Nan used to say "Reet, I'm off down't throyd tu't shops" (translated into Southern as 'Alright Geezers, I'm off daahn the shops if yer wan' ennyfin'..."

*hence my thinking Royd meant Road.

An understandable mistake, it looks and sounds a bit like road. But in the same way as towns that have/end in 'ham' they are no longer hamlets or villages

 

[GOM]

Did you ever "cut through snicket"

It is and it isn't, having spent some of my early teens in Wigan then later Manchester. I did think in some aspects it drove me nuts, the backward neanderthal blokes in white shirts and socks and black pants on a Friday and a Saturday night wanting a fight with anyone especially if you were dressed differently or from outside the village or town.

The Pies, and chip shops were awesome, and the sayings were fantastic, people once you got to know them were nearly always friendly and welcoming.

Snickets are called ginnels (soft g as in begin) around West Yorkshire. My mum from Kent referred to them as twittens as did I.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

My nan had two sisters and one of them married a Boothroyd.

I knew some Boothroyds in that neck of the woods.

Heckmondwike and Cleckheaton. When working at the electricity board, we referred to that area as CleckHuddersFax.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Snickets are called ginnels (soft g as in begin) around West Yorkshire. My mum from Kent referred to them as twittens as did I.

(Hard g in West Yorkshire (begin is a hard g), soft g in South Yorkshire sounds like jennel.

 

[Norman Potting]

THE LION AND ALBERT
There’s a famous seaside place called Blackpool,
That’s noted for fresh air and fun,
And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom
Went there with young Albert, their son.
A grand little lad was young Albert,
All dressed in his best; quite a swell
With a stick with an ‘orse’s ‘ead ‘andle,
The finest that Woolworth’s could sell.

If you've not heard of it before, google it. Very amusing!

Admit your age by recalling the Lion's name

 

[schmunk]

I knew some Boothroyds in that neck of the woods.

Heckmondwike and Cleckheaton. When working at the electricity board, we referred to that area as CleckHuddersFax.

Also CleckHeckmondSedge - I grew up around there, amongst the ginnels, and now live amongst the twittens...