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I suppose that what I find odd is that they would commission a wagon with a Welsh name on it. Intriguing?

 

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QUOTE (pedromorgan @ 27 Nov 2007, 22:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I have never been to scotland! i have been to york and the lake district. i went to liverpool once. but the north is a wilderness into which i have never had reason to venture.

but i have made up for it buy visiting many other countries!

Peter
You don't know what you're missing Peter. Scotland is a very different place from England.

 

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QUOTE (Invicta @ 29 Nov 2007, 02:31) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Edinburgh Woollen Mill own the James Pringle shop & visitor centre at Llanfair PG- I'd guess the OBAs are mainly destined for sale there- as I recall, they're a Hornby dealer

http://www.ewm.co.uk/destination-shopping/...wllgwyngyll.htm
So thats it!

 

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QUOTE (Sir Galahad @ 30 Nov 2007, 07:35) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yeah. It's rubbish. Boring. And smells funny.

I would have thought the north was above Yorkshire. And I don't know where Watford is.
Now now, It's not all like Dunfermline.

I used to think it was bizarre that they referred to Liverpool and Manchester as "the north" on the weather when I was a kid as they were only a third of the way up the country. Even in English terms they are only in the middle. Just shows you how Londoncentric the establishment is.

 

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What really got up my nose was when I was at University in London, they referred to Scotland as part of "the North". I think there's a lot of people who see the UK as London, threst being "the North" and "the West".

 

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QUOTE (alastairq @ 2 Dec 2007, 00:18) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>lancashire is considerd oop north......why not Yorkshire..which is more north and east of lancashire....?

I live in east Yorkshire, which is roughly on the same latitude as the Lake district....obvioulsy not as ' up north' as Newcastle....but....

a phrase that bugged me was the reference to the Home counties....what a pompous descrition...home to who?

sadly I feel London ought to be physically isolated from the rest of the UK......it no longer being 'representative' of this country.
I always thought that the capital should be relocated to somewhere more geographically central say Manchester, Sheffield or Leeds. A lot of Britain's problems emanate from the focus on the capital. Something more substantial than a tip of the hat by relocating the DVLC to Swansea is required.

I thought Yorkshire was regarded as North. My Wife and her family are from Sheffield which is as South as Yorkshire gets and they regard themselves as Northern.

 

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QUOTE (Sol @ 2 Dec 2007, 11:22) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Neil, if you think the UK capital should be "somewhere more geographically central ", does this mean that Australia should have its' capital at Alice Springs

Why not Ron? It's as relevant as Canberra!