Ardwick / Beswick

[unsworthblue]

Blackley should be pronounced Black,lee also rather than Blake,lee as it is,sometimes you here people,especially on the radio saying 'traffic problems in Black,lee 'as i scream Blake,lee you knob at the radio

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

Many years ago I worked in a call centre, and we had a centre in Southwark. The amount of new starters who would bamboozle callers by pronouncing it South-wark was unbelievable.

 

[tidyman]

Why's Southall, Suth-ul and not south-hall?

Why's Norwich, No-rich yet Northwich, North-witch?

Why's Oldham such a fuckin' dump?

So many questions and so few answers.

 

[Mugatu]

Why's Southall, Suth-ul and not south-hall?

It's niether. It's South-all.

Why's Oldham such a fuckin' dump?

I lolled at that though. :-)

 

[Challenger1978]

My god that brings back some unhappy memories. That Kwik-Save was the only "supermarket" within walking distance of our house (loosely speaking, must have been well over a mile) and every Saturday I used to be used as a kind of ad-hoc pack mule to carry 4 bags of shopping per hand from the "Kwikkie" back to Ardwick, past the Red Rec, over the train tracks and back to our gaff near Bank Meadow.
Those cheap plastic bags used to be like cheese wire in my palms. The only upside was a hot Vimto at Grey Mare Lane market's "cafe" before the walk home.

They demolished Fort Beswick in the late 80's if I remember rightly, what a fucking carbuncle that place was.

Hmm if I'm thinking of the same place it was still there in 2003 (when I used to live around there) and was only ripped down a couple of years back. When the council started to build the new secondary school that's still being built on Grey mare lane now.

 

[tidyman]

Why's Southall, Suth-ul and not south-hall?

It's niether. It's South-all.

Why's Oldham such a fuckin' dump?

I lolled at that though. :-)

My mistake. I meant Southwell not Southall.

I did mean Oldham though.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

Blackley should be pronounced Black,lee also rather than Blake,lee as it is,sometimes you here people,especially on the radio saying 'traffic problems in Black,lee 'as i scream Blake,lee you knob at the radio

Read that back mate, you've lost me. Which one is it?

 

[nelsons willie]

and why was the name changed from bradford to beswick

It hasn't Bradford and Beswick are next to each other, Beswick is west of Bradford.

well bugger me.

 

[Carver]

The Wiki entries for Beswick and Bradford both claim that our stadium and asda are in their area.

 

[crumpsallblue]

A lot of older people say Ancuts instead of Ancoats.