General Chat

Thanks Dave, my Dad will be dead chuffed! Daisy

I'm a Surrey/Essex girl but my Dad was born and bred in Fulwood, Preston. His father was born in Preston and everyone on his mother's side are from Croston and the surrounding villages going back to at least 1670. Do I qualify please? Daisy PS Tom Finney lived at the top of my Dad's road and used to kick a ball around with Dad and his friends! He still supports PNE.

i live in burnley in lancashire its got some lovely places not a lot but we have townley hall gawthorpe hall [padiham] and soronding areas pendle hill sabbden tracle mines lancaster castle and some lovelie grave yards true lancashire red rose lisa

Moved over the Pennines in 2001, to Morecambe, which is just in Lancashire, close to Cumbria. The countryside is great around here, close to the Lakes. Sunsets over the Bay are wonderful. The people are also friendly. Although sometimes I miss my Yorkshire friends and relatives. Pat

Hi i am Ady from Blackpool home of the tower the golden mile and the pleasure beach

Harold- i lived in wigan -trawled from fleetwood and hull in 1960s- went to see my family last week and there's more now! Live london wards - Hampton Court is nearest name Still need meat n potato pies -no decent ones in south - had one in manchester butn not as tasty as wigan pies - peas were right though- im lancashire - used to be a blackpool rocker -bikes all gone now-retired- luck to you allX

born in Hapton, near Burnley (Up the Clarets!!) till 16 then moved to Walkden, near Manchester. Mum's side come from Ancoats, then Hapton. Dad's side from Accrington(Simpsons & Kenyons) but g.gparents from Wensleydale, N Yorks. Now live in Scotland - but want to 'go home'. Bought a plot in Burnley Cemetery for when my time comes. Don't want to lie in the corner of some foreign field .

maggie are thee al reet cock lol

Right back to 1810 (which is as far back as Ive managed to get), my paternal side have lived in Bolton, my dad was the one to break away when he joined the army. He married a Yorkshire Lass, and we only ever went back for holidays every couple of years to stay with my grandparents. Dads mothers side hail from Leigh, Wigan and Coppul, so Im a pink rose, but if anyone ask's me where Im from I always say Bolton, saves long explanations. Maggie

I use to live in Freckleton and went to school in Kirkham, the best school dinners l ever had the hot pot with red cabbage.

hubby was born in Manchester but came to live in Portsmouth when he was 13,so now he's a proper southerner(don't tell him i said that!!)

i was born in bolton still live here aye by gum

hi philip from philipe,i was born on nile st near oldham brewery in the long ago age of 1952.we moved to royton when i was 10,went to chaddy grammar and left oldham when i was 19.lived in wales for awhile,then berkshire and i now live in france near bordeaux.i still follow the latics!!!!!!!and when i do go back to visit all my family it is still HOME.i think i got wanderlust because my mum added the E to philip so of course i just had to move to france.pssst listen very carefully,i shall say this only once LANCASHIRE is the centre of the known universe

Can I come in please ?... I would like to be a paid up guest !! I really do wish I had been born in Lancs so I wouldn't have to keep asking for help with ALL my Lancastrian ancestors on my Maternal side. Mother was born in Stretford in 1938, GDad was born in Halston St, S Manchester in 1902, and others before him ALL come from Denton/Chorlton/Salford/Urmston etc etc. Wish I knew more about the area so I didn't have to always keep asking for help. I'm a Derbyshire lass incidently, strong in arm, thick in yead !! Elaine :-)

Hi everyone, I was born in Salford (Hope Hospital), brought up in Cheshire, got married and have spent the next 30 years in Whitefield. My paternal family was from Pendleton, Salford, and maternal family, Cheshire, Manchester and further back I have just found out from Derbyshire. Sally

come on we are last now on play the counties

Great idea, Chris, I'd love to be able to do that (teleport). Would cut out all the hassle of travelling long distances. Actually, they've recently opened the first toll motorway in England, which runs from the M6 well north of Birmingham down the east side to a point well south east, so misses out the whole conurbation completely. Lots of media hype at the time (usual rubbish about tolls being un-English etc! ), but it does seem to have improved things. I've used it travelling up to the north west from Oxfordshire, and it is pleasantly quiet. But my normal use is travelling up the M5 from Tiverton to the old junction with the M6, and even this is much better now. I can usually drive straight through to the junction without queuing for ages, which I used to have to do. Coming back to teleports, I remember the Guardian many years ago doing one of its April fool editions on a new scientific intention that converted people into atoms, so that they could be teleported in a beam via satellite to places like Australia. I would really like to have believed it! lol! Been watching too much Star Trek, I imagine! Now we know where you are, you can form our next overseas branch. Keep 'em coming! Philip

OK Folks, it's all gone quiet! I've been away from home for the past few days, visiting the outlaws in Oldham on family shope business. Distinctly cooler than down here in the banana belt! I'd like to get up more often, but using the M6 is like trying to cross from the alpha to the delta quadrant in Star Trek! Some of the drivers drive me mad! Can we please abolish them and the motorway, and find some quicker and more painless way of keeping in physical touch! Suggestions please! Philip

I was born in Manchester, as were my parents. Mum's family were mainly from the Gorton area and dad's side were from Pendleton/Salford area. I moved to Coventry in 1991 to live with my then partner who I had met at college. When we split up in 1998 I stayed here. My parents now live in Bury and my two sisters live in Whitefield. My brother moved to Canada about 4 years ago. I don't get back to Manchester as often as I used to but still consider myself a Lancashire lass. Mel

ok Folks, not quite sure what or who i am maybe you can tell me?? My Parents are both Manchester born, Father was in the Army therefore i was born aboard (germany) but i have a british birth Cert. from the age of 4 i have lived in the Trafford area of Manchester. So What am I ?