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  • vinteuil
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 12846

    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    It’s in the Nw of England, but is close to the centre of the UK.
    ... ah, "the UK". Those were the days!



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    • LMcD
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      • Sep 2017
      • 8489

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      ... ah, "the UK". Those were the days!



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      My late father-in-law, with whom I agreed on virtually nothing, used to refer jocularly to the Benighted Kingdom. Wherever he is now, he's probably having a good laugh.

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      • underthecountertenor
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        • Apr 2011
        • 1584

        Originally posted by antongould View Post
        Didn’t hear Martin Handley properly this morning, but I think he said he was leaving Salford at weekends or did he say he was leaving Breakfast ..... ?????

        Alkers next week ........
        Pretty sure it was the former.

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        • antongould
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 8792

          Originally posted by underthecountertenor View Post
          Pretty sure it was the former.
          That’s what I thought ....... sensible exercise sending up there most weekends for 9+ years what .... ???

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22128

            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            It’s in the Nw of England, but is close to the centre of the UK.
            It’s a good way north of Meriden!

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            • vinteuil
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12846

              Originally posted by cloughie View Post
              It’s a good way north of Meriden!
              ... and Meriden's claims don't really stack up -



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              • antongould
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                • Nov 2010
                • 8792

                Cheers vints it’s Haltwhistle just as I was taught at school .........

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                • Eine Alpensinfonie
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 20570

                  ... which is why I think Lancaster should be the capital of the UK.

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                  • vinteuil
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12846

                    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                    ... which is why I think Lancaster should be the capital of the UK.
                    ... but the capital should - if I follow your line of thinking - be at the centre of what matters. And what matters, I suggest, is people rather than land-mass. And so -



                    - is what you're looking for.

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                    • cloughie
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                      • Dec 2011
                      • 22128

                      Talking England, not UK, Meriden is spot on, unless you do not include Cornwall in which case you may have to move a liitle further North-left, probably not quite correct, but it would be nice to think that would be Ashby de la Zouche!

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                      • Eine Alpensinfonie
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 20570

                        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                        ... but the capital should - if I follow your line of thinking - be at the centre of what matters. And what matters, I suggest, is people rather than land-mass. And so -



                        - is what you're looking for.

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                        People tend to migrate towards the capital, wherever it is.
                        The point about Lancaster is that it's one of the best places in terms of proximity to the 4 countries of the UK (though the top of Snaefel, IOM would be better, but the Isle of Man is crown dependency, and not part of the UK).

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                        • vinteuil
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12846

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                          ... but it's still Lancaster




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                          • Frances_iom
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                            • Mar 2007
                            • 2413

                            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                            ...though the top of Snaefel, IOM would be better, ....
                            and is often lost in the mist which is extremely appropriate to the current state in 4 of the countries surrounding the Irish sea.

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                            • Old Grumpy
                              Full Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 3619

                              Good to hear Catherine Bott (formerly of this parish) namechecked by Petroc for birthday greetings from R3 this morning.

                              Played a beautiful rendition by CB of Dido's Lament too.



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                              • Joseph K
                                Banned
                                • Oct 2017
                                • 7765

                                Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                                Good to hear Catherine Bott (formerly of this parish) namechecked by Petroc for birthday greetings from R3 this morning.

                                Played a beautiful rendition by CB of Dido's Lament too.



                                OG
                                I caught this.

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