Things you refuse to call by their new name

Tuearts right boot said:
Born and bred in Sale, Cheshire, never Manchester even though it's M33 post code. The fact that where we lived was 2 minutes from the border, the Mersey and then Stretford / Chorlton....Pure snob value but it keeps me happy.
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Moved here about 20 years ago. The county is Greater Manchester, even though there's still the sign on the A56 saying the historic boundary of Lancashire and Cheshire. To anyone outside the area, Manchester makes more sense and I'd definitely rather put that than Trafford!

Basically, it's reverse snobbery that stops me putting Cheshire :-)
 
bluesince76 said:
Moved here about 20 years ago. The county is Greater Manchester, even though there's still the sign on the A56 saying the historic boundary of Lancashire and Cheshire. To anyone outside the area, Manchester makes more sense and I'd definitely rather put that than Trafford!

Basically, it's reverse snobbery that stops me putting Cheshire :-)
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Never called it Trafford or Manchester in all my 63 years, so Cheshire it is with all its housewives ;)
Ironically Brooklands, M33 post code, which is Sale, and where I lived for some years was controlled by Manchester council and all its amenities yet Ashton on Mersey, also M33 post code, where I was born and lived was/is Cheshire.
 
Stephen230 said:
Don’t know where you live but a lot of people in Altrincham and Hale insist they live in Cheshire and not Greater Manchester like they actually do. But the reason for that, apart from wanting to be posh, is that they were actually told back in ‘74 and to this day as far as I know, to continue using Cheshire in their address as it would make it easier for the post office to get their mail sent to the right delivery office.
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Yeah, told by one of the snobby residents (not the post office) who just err, probably made it up.

Same with Stalybridge, some people still insist it's in Cheshire, (although Stalybridge is to Cheshire what snow is to the Sahara desert) but it's now Tameside, Greater Manchester since 1974. Still they cling on to Cheshire. :)

Stalybridge is a town located in the county of Greater Manchester, North West England.02 It was historically in the county of Cheshire and was transferred to the county of Greater Manchester in 1974.1 Stalybridge is situated roughly centrally between the southernmost and northernmost extremities of Greater Manchester, and towards the easternmost extremity of Greater Manchester. It falls within the metropolitan district council of Tameside and is in the SK15 postcode district.
 
Bill Walker said:
It falls within the metropolitan district council of Tameside and is in the SK15 postcode district.
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But, Stockport post code, do that puts it in Cheshire, surely?!

;-)

And, while we are on the subject, Tameside is new fangled bullshit all of it’s own to us FOCs!
 
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