A bit council (Vol 4)

[Frank7]

alorotom said:

Frank7 said:

Were I from Bradford or indeed Leeds, I’d pretend to be from Rhyl, or Basildon.
There’s surely more cachet being from there than Yorkshire, (wherever that is.)

Why?? Leeds is a very popular and a very nice place

Maybe it is now, I’m just recalling it from my old trucking days in the 60s and 70s, we had a regular job to Drighlington, and would stay in a pub there overnight.
Someone suggested that if we wanted to have a good time, get a taxi into Armley or Chapeltown, the memories of those places scarred me for life.
For all I know, they may be the garden spots of the North now.

[Lemming Train]

Guy from Rotherhithe posts opinions on places he's not been to for 50-60 years. Righto..

[Pericoloso]

I won't be watching any of these family vlogs....not one single second of them.
Beyond dreadful.

[Stan the Bat]

Frank7 said:

One of the first to hit big were a family from Bradford (though they pretend to be from Leeds) called The Ingham Family.





Were I from Bradford or indeed Leeds, I’d pretend to be from Rhyl, or Basildon.
There’s surely more cachet being from there than Yorkshire, (wherever that is.)

I think Rhyl is not a good choice there.

[Frank7]

Stan the Bat said:

Frank7 said:

One of the first to hit big were a family from Bradford (though they pretend to be from Leeds) called The Ingham Family.





Were I from Bradford or indeed Leeds, I’d pretend to be from Rhyl, or Basildon.
There’s surely more cachet being from there than Yorkshire, (wherever that is.)

I think Rhyl is not a good choice there.

I knew that Stan, I had the misfortune to stay there one night years ago, after delivering oil to Wylfa power station, Anglesey, and having to go to Ellesmere Port to pick another load up, I was trying to gently wind up the Yorkies.

[ApOrbital]

Puddings?

[austinsmirk]

Ooofff. I suspect most people couldn’t afford to live to God’s own country, that is Yorkshire 🙂

[The Li-ion King]

V8mate said:

Roofless Toothless said:

When I lived in Ilford I used to get infuriated by the people who would insist on calling that road Green Lanes, like there were two of them. Why? I can only think it was council.

Probably because of this

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Green+Lanes,+Lon...

And there are others in London too.

Living on Lordship Lane N17 and having a new company van delivered to Lordship Lane SE22 by mistake as the driver got the sat nav wrong can be a ball ache too

[anonymous-user]

Frank7 said:

alorotom said:

Frank7 said:

Were I from Bradford or indeed Leeds, I’d pretend to be from Rhyl, or Basildon.
There’s surely more cachet being from there than Yorkshire, (wherever that is.)

Why?? Leeds is a very popular and a very nice place

Maybe it is now, I’m just recalling it from my old trucking days in the 60s and 70s, we had a regular job to Drighlington, and would stay in a pub there overnight.
Someone suggested that if we wanted to have a good time, get a taxi into Armley or Chapeltown, the memories of those places scarred me for life.
For all I know, they may be the garden spots of the North now.

I dread to think some of these vloggers are the results of your "good times" in the area.

[Lemming Train]

techiedave said:

I dread to think some of these vloggers are the results of your "good times" in the area.

If his truck driver stories were anything like his taxi driver stories that he posts on here I don't think there's any danger of that Dave as they wouldn't have stuck around long enough for anything to happen.

[Vaud]

Frank7 said:

alorotom said:

Frank7 said:

Were I from Bradford or indeed Leeds, I’d pretend to be from Rhyl, or Basildon.
There’s surely more cachet being from there than Yorkshire, (wherever that is.)

Why?? Leeds is a very popular and a very nice place

Maybe it is now, I’m just recalling it from my old trucking days in the 60s and 70s, we had a regular job to Drighlington, and would stay in a pub there overnight.
Someone suggested that if we wanted to have a good time, get a taxi into Armley or Chapeltown, the memories of those places scarred me for life.
For all I know, they may be the garden spots of the North now.

Armley and Chapeltown are both still rough, though heaven knows why they were recommended back then.

Leeds is thriving since the financial services and legal companies moved a lot of services "oop north" in the 1990s...

Leeds and the surrounds are very different places now... just look at house prices in Chapel Allerton (a short hop from Chapeltown), Harrogate, Ilkley, etc...

[George Smiley]

Leeds is fantastic, I was working up there last year and found a stunning 4 bed mill conversion with it's own land and water wheel for sale at a little over 300k. Just between Harrogate and Leeds with access to the train. Some real bargain real estate up there

[illmonkey]

Council?

[StanleyT]

burritoNinja said:

Frank7 said:

Agreed Matt, but Americans do that a lot on domestic flights.
That’s up to them, but they can’t all live in the “projects.”
I don’t think that they do it so much to applaud the pilots, they’re
probably applauding God for returning them to terra firma, alive.

Where exactly in the States do they clap when plane lands? I lived in the US for most of my 20’s and been on dozens of domestic flights and never once has anybody clapped when it landed. My American wife has also never experienced this. Asked a few of her family who live in the States and they have never seen it either.

Seen it Orlando 1997 and Seattle 1998, both wet landings, almost sort of like "wow, you found the runway" mystique.

Generally avoided America since, though pretty good airlines, most generally found the runway, few found buildings or swamps, but we don't have 1st hand evidence if they applauded or not..

[StanleyT]

Frank7 said:

Stan the Bat said:

Frank7 said:

One of the first to hit big were a family from Bradford (though they pretend to be from Leeds) called The Ingham Family.





Were I from Bradford or indeed Leeds, I’d pretend to be from Rhyl, or Basildon.
There’s surely more cachet being from there than Yorkshire, (wherever that is.)

I think Rhyl is not a good choice there.

I knew that Stan, I had the misfortune to stay there one night years ago, after delivering oil to Wylfa "nuclear" power station, Anglesey, and having to go to Ellesmere Port to pick another load up, I was trying to gently wind up the Yorkies.

The "nuclear" power station? Hmmm, you'd have to divert off the A55 to get to Rhyl and you'd really nead a reason, as if you wanted cheap you would hav egone to Prestatyn. Pre 1997 was "Going Green on the Grannies", post that Liverpool Smackheads exported. So which drew you in.........

Funnily enough though, I was from Sheffield and used to pretend to be from Rhyl on a night out in Liverpool. Scousers thought you must be an "ard-un" to have survived the pre Trainspotting Rhyl heroin culture.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/mar/16/co...

[Mr E]

illmonkey said:

Council?

I’m not sure.

[Tom _M]

Mr E said:

I’m not sure.

Well done

[talksthetorque]

Tom _M said:

Mr E said:

I’m not sure.

Well done

Is it more or less council now we’re looking at it?

[Frank7]

StanleyT said:

The "nuclear" power station? Hmmm, you'd have to divert off the A55 to get to Rhyl and you'd really nead a reason, as if you wanted cheap you would hav egone to Prestatyn. Pre 1997 was "Going Green on the Grannies", post that Liverpool Smackheads exported. So which drew you in.........

Funnily enough though, I was from Sheffield and used to pretend to be from Rhyl on a night out in Liverpool. Scousers thought you must be an "ard-un" to have survived the pre Trainspotting Rhyl heroin culture.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/mar/16/co...

Not sure why, when I put in Wylfa Power Station, it was edited by someone to “nuclear” power station, or whether getting to Rhyl from Bangor involved diverting off the A55 at the time.
As I recall it, this would have been very early seventies, as I clearly remember that the first time I did the Wylfa job must have been 1969, as the TV in the hotel that night was full of the Queen, investing Charles as Prince of Wales.
Anyway, there were two of us going into Wylfa the time that we stopped in Rhyl, en-route to Ellesmere Port, and the other guy said, “How about we stay over in Rhyl, seaside place, bound to be full of birds.”
As I was circa 30 at the time, that sounded like a good plan, but nothing came of it.
Neither of us had ever been to Rhyl before, so I guess that we just followed signs for the place, as for wanting cheap, we were making good dough on that job, so cheap was never a part of the plan.

[Mr E]

Tom _M said:

Mr E said:

I’m not sure.

Well done