Actually, how bloody big are you really????...

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

You ask all the kids from Altrincham where they're from most will say Manchester, you ask anyone with a house they'll probably say Cheshire.

Haha great stuff

I'm no historian but was altrincham and sale once cheshire? And what about partington near sale? I once had a mate who's sister went with a lad from partington.......rough as fucking arseholes i'm told ;-)

They're the posh ones!

 

[Bill]

the biggest.

 

[OxBlue]

So manchester itself has a definitive border? ie, moss side, gorton, levenshume, cheetham hill etc etc?

Curious, cos to me Altrincham, sale and stretford are manchester but i'm only a visitor now and then.

This is our City..

That map is all to cock, can't comment on South Manchester, but Moston and Harpurhey border each other?

 

[Deleted member 14625]

To me the borough of Manchester does not represent the city of Manchester as a whole, there is a whole lot more to it.

I live in Timperley in Trafford, but i'm metres away from Wythenshawe's Manchester borough boarder with Trafford.

To me Manchester is: the borough of Manchester, Trafford (yes Trafford), Salford, some parts of Tameside (like Droylesden), some parts of Stockport, some parts of Bury (Prestwich and Whitefield), some parts of Rochdale (Middleton), some parts of Oldham (Chadderton) etc...

Outside these areas is where the accents start to change in one way or another.

But between these areas there is no distinguishing differences between the accents or the people. What's the difference between people who live in Whalley Range and Old Trafford, between Chorlton and Stretford, between Brunage and Heaton Mersey, between Higher Broughton and Cheetham Hill? Most of us spend our time, going on nights out, watching out football team, shopping in the area we call "town"...Manchester.

I do not, however, consider Bolton and Wigan as part of Manchester.

So the population of this area would be about, what, 2.2 million?

-- Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:34 am --

Haha great stuff

I'm no historian but was altrincham and sale once cheshire? And what about partington near sale? I once had a mate who's sister went with a lad from partington.......rough as fucking arseholes i'm told ;-)

They're the posh ones!

The Broomwood, The Grange, Broadheath, Oldfield Brow, The Racecourse, Sale Moor; aren't posh.

 

[Failsworth_Blue]

This is our City..

That map is all to cock, can't comment on South Manchester, but Moston and Harpurhey border each other?

Was just thinking that myself, not sure how Collyhurst fits in between Moston and Harpurhey. I reckon they got Harpurhey and Collyhurst the wrong way round......

 

[Fame Monster]

Harpurhey should not be that big on the map. It's just a small part of Blackley which borders Moston to the west.

 

[whipper]

This is to Danburge82

Salford is not and never been part of Manchester mate.If someone asks where I'm from I say Salford,the reply is normally oh Manchester which I find annoying.Salford is a city in it's self,you will find anyone born in Salford and they'd say the same mate.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

This is our City..

That map is all to cock, can't comment on South Manchester, but Moston and Harpurhey border each other?

Yeah, yer can't get from Blackley straight into Kiddland - it's Blackley, 'Apperay, Collyhurst, City!

 

[desperatedon]

if you would of carried on a liitle further through Leigh you would of come to Hindley, this place is full of real inbreds, almost as bad as Stoke.

Actually Leigh is a suburb of Wigan. ;-)

 

[levets]

Failsworth....?

Our address is ++++++, failsworth, manchester, M35 9++