08 Jun 2019, 11:48 am
Biscuitman
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08 Jun 2019, 11:49 am
Around here, you're lucky if a house has a back door at all - a lot of the terraces are Industrial Revolution era back-to-backs (or over-/under-dwellings in the really hilly bits.) When I've lived in back-terrace houses where the only access is through a ginnel (pedestrian tunnel through the terrace), it's not been unusual to have delivery people and visitors get confused why my house number doesn't seem to exist, or to open my "front door" to perplexed looks from people who've come to a neighbour's "back door" and wonder who the hell I am (though probably not quite as perplexed as I usually seemed to them, I imagine - and not half as often as I just cowered breathlessly in a corner until they buggered off!
)And, when I were a lad..... mumble, mumble...
Not really seen any of Yorkshire, aside from Brammal Lane as an away fan, and would definitely like to. My childhood terraced house shows that it's not all large country retreats down here in the home counties!
08 Jun 2019, 12:43 pm
I was raised in Bucks/Northants, by working class family in part originally from Sussex - it was a bit of a shock moving up North and having it assumed that I was "posh" every time I opened my mouth. When I was active in the anarcho-punk scene up here in my youth, accusations of "middle-class folks slumming it to be cool" often used to float around people who'd actually come from extremely deprived backgrounds but didn't use Northern vernacular. I don't suppose being a hyperlexic Aspie helped me very much there, either! ("vernacular"!? - reck'n tha's a cut above duss tha?!
)
09 Jun 2019, 12:32 pm
10 Jun 2019, 12:32 am
So, I've been passed over yet again. 
Birthday Honours 2019
Oscar-winner Olivia Colman has been made a CBE and adventurer Bear Grylls an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours - alongside hundreds of campaigners and volunteers.
Sculptor Rachel Whiteread, Confederation of British Industry chief Carolyn Fairbairn, and Maggie's cancer centres chief executive Laura Lee are among the new dames.
The knighthoods include acclaimed theatre actor Simon Russell Beale and Andrew Parker and Alex Younger, the heads of MI5 and MI6 respectively.
Jack Reacher author Lee Child and novelist Joanna Trollope become CBEs, and musician Elvis Costello, singer Alfie Boe and comedian Griff Rhys Jones OBEs.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48543826
10 Jun 2019, 12:35 am
10 Jun 2019, 8:18 am
I know, I'm gutted too
I should have a baronetcy by now.
10 Jun 2019, 10:39 am
I grew up in New Ferry, Shore Bank right by the Mersey, there was a field outside my house that had a boat on it
10 Jun 2019, 12:10 pm
It has rained ALL day and now I'm hungry so I'm going to get wet so I might as well have gone earlier and had time to cook something nice 
10 Jun 2019, 12:17 pm
I know, I'm gutted too
I should have a baronetcy by now.We will have our revenge in due time, your ladyship.
10 Jun 2019, 1:19 pm
I grew up in New Ferry, Shore Bank right by the Mersey, there was a field outside my house that had a boat on it
I used to play in that boat... my mate used to live in Pollitt Square overlooking the shore fields. New Ferry baths nearby... and the abandoned Smallpox hospital behind that (that really gave me the creeps)
10 Jun 2019, 2:10 pm
I used to play in that boat... my mate used to live in Pollitt Square overlooking the shore fields. New Ferry baths nearby... and the abandoned Smallpox hospital behind that (that really gave me the creeps)[/quote]
I've seen photographs of the baths but they'd gone when I lived there.
They looked really good
10 Jun 2019, 2:31 pm
10 Jun 2019, 3:48 pm
I know, I'm gutted too
I should have a baronetcy by now.We will have our revenge in due time, your ladyship.
All is not lost, I have connections.
10 Jun 2019, 3:56 pm
/\I have one of those.I did have two,but one vanished.Either ate by coyotes or stolen. 
He was tricolor and a sweetheart.The remaining Corgi is a diva.
10 Jun 2019, 4:08 pm
I've seen photographs of the baths but they'd gone when I lived there.
They looked really good
[/quote]It was a proper old-fashioned lido. You'd spend all day in there. 16' deep in the deep end, and the water was absolutely freezing.
