Happy Lancashire Day

Eccles Blue said:
Whoops of course. I forgot about the poppy!!! Which is bad as I wear the City and poppy badge on my scarf right through the season!!! Tut tut. My Grandfather was killed in the First World War

Sorry. :-)
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Mrs Ewing said to me earlier this month that the RBL were selling poppy badges with football crests. Yeah, I said, I’ve got two of em!
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
I don’t mind Yarrrkshire but what I detest are those folk who go on and on and fuckin’ on about how fantastic Yarrrkshire is whilst sipping a Pimm’s on their Bucks or Berks patio!!
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In real life I'm fucked.

My dad is a Manc and my mam from Sheffield. Either side of the family I'm the black sheep.
 
Eccles Blue said:
Amidst all the doom and gloom and angst today I decided to celebrate.

HAPPY LANCASHIRE DAY.

I know that technically these days I live in Greater Manchester but tough luck Gtr Mcr this lassie is a Lancashire Lassie born and bred.

So celebrate, Lancastrians, Have a great Lancashire Day.

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I am sorry, can anyone tell me about it?
 
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The King is the Duke of Lancaster. A tradition is the say “The Duke of Lancaster” At a royal toast in Lancashire. The palatine county of Lancashire still exists but not as a local government unit. There is still a Lord Lieutenant who is the king’s rep in the county.
 
Having been booted out of Cheshire, the sunlit uplands of Wythenshawe spent 43 years as part of (the much less effete) Lancashire, including it's most formative years so Happy Lancashire day one and all. :-)

Semi-related there's talk of restarting the War of the Roses or at least the Rugby League version. 44 wins each and 3 draws, can't leave it like that indefinitely surely!
 
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threespires said:
Having been booted out of Cheshire, the sunlit uplands of Wythenshawe spent 43 years as part of (the much less effete) Lancashire, including it's most formative years so Happy Lancashire day one and all. :-)

Semi-related there's talk of restarting the War of the Roses or at least the Rugby League version. 44 wins each and 3 draws, can't leave it like that indefinitely surely!
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Northenden where I was brought up was also in Cheshire until, I think, the 1930s. The Mersey was the original border.
 
KS55 said:
Northenden where I was brought up was also in Cheshire until, I think, the 1930s. The Mersey was the original border.
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Yes the Local Government Act of 1929 did two things, reformed the Poor Laws so that responsibility for 'relief of the poor' aligned directly to local authority areas rather than separate Poor Law Union areas and the other thing it did was allow for boundary changes to create more effective local government. So in 1931 Northenden essentially got scooped up as part of the changes that brought Wythenshawe fully into Manchester. Originally when Manchester wanted to purchase land south of the Mersey for overspill to relieve the urban squalor it couldn't afford it but in 1926 Ernest and Shena Lewis bought Wythenshawe Hall and the surrounding land and gifted it to the council which was then able to afford to put in compulsory purchase orders to build the rest of the estate. So when the 1929 Act provided the means to redraw the boundaries it was a bit of a no brainer for Cheshire to transfer full control of Wythenshawe to Manchester. Despite the misgivings of some Northenden residents it made geographic sense for Manchester, which was keen to create as much overspill capacity as possible, to absorb Northenden too at the same time.
 
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